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@ccess offers many opportunities for students’ full participation in decisions involving
and fostering oral and written exchanges such as:
• How much time they will allocate to the proposed activities in the practice schedule,
depending on the challenges they represent for your students. For example, for
some, writing is a more time-consuming activity, while for others, reading will need
more time.
• What kinds of activities and how many of them are necessary to develop the steps
for crafting a language product. For instance, some students may require a greater
number of activities than those proposed in order to understand something they
listen to or read.
• What will be the subject, addressee and purpose of the language product.
Inasmuch as students get involved in these decisions, they will become co-
responsible for their learning process and the result. For example, if your students
cannot reach agreement on the subject matter, they can have different proposals
from different teams, provided that each team commits and becomes co-
responsible for the partial and final results.
• How to manage work within teams. This decision entails using each team member’s
strengths as well as recognizing what kind of personal support is needed. Learning
to work as a team demands personal responsibility for giving what one knows and
knows how to do best, so the result is a joint achievement.

Moreover, while crafting a language product is a collective challenge, the proposal
gives the chance to alternate between individual and group working modes, in
different moments, so as to foster personal self-awareness and to exchange opinions,
reasons and ideas.

This having been said, we have endeavored to model communicative actions and
to make evident indispensable linguistic knowledge. In that way, your students can
become satisfactory participants of social language practices and their key outcomes.

We are convinced that your work and vocation enable our youngsters to learn,
thus while creating @ccess, we gave our best so as to provide you with tools that may
contribute, in as many ways as possible, to carrying out your noble task of teaching.

The author

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