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Components
                                                                 •   Building stage: In this stage, different
                                                                    communicative activities take place, so as
                                                                    to develop, widen and consolidate skills
              The @ccess didactic pack contains four                and knowledge therein involved. Students
              different materials, which are described next:        will carry out activities such as looking
                                                                    up information, exploring, interpreting,
              1.  Student’s Book. This is composed of ten           composing and checking the texts required
                 social language practices. Each practice           for a language product. These, in turn, will
                 shows a didactic sequence organized into           trigger authentic communicative exchanges
                 three stages: warm-up, building and closure.       where reflection upon formal details and
                 It includes the steps, activities, and linguistic   conduct, and behaviors and values for
                 knowledge required to become more                  successful communication are put into
                 proficient at participating in the practice,       play. At this stage, with your guidance and
                 while achieving the expected outcomes              support, students will need to self-regulate
                 and developing the language products.              their learning, that is, to recognize which
                 Unlike their mother tongue, English has            skills, knowledge and attitudes require
                 little or no presence in the different contexts    attention so as to solve communicative,
                 of students’ social life. For this reason,         cultural and attitudinal challenges involved
                 alternating social practices of the language       in their language products. Thus, it is
                 contribute to mimicking conditions similar         essential to stop as many times as necessary
                 to those in students’ social life. This, in turn,   to assess their performance, which
                 promotes learning English and the cultural         scheduled activities they have already done
                 guidelines involved in social interactions. It     and which they have not. Check the activities
                 entails the development of communicative           in which they require more support and
                 activities that favor interpersonal exchange.      why there is or isn’t good communication
                 Each speaker brings his or her competence          within teams so that they become more
                 in English to the conversation and learns to       autonomous and develop social skills. For
                 overcome the challenge of communicating            all these reasons, the content and form of a
                 in English through a specific social purpose.      language product are defined at this stage,
                 Each stage has distinguishing features, which      which is comprised of reaching agreements,
                 are summarized below:                              negotiating, giving rationales and sharing
              •   Warm-up stage: Its aims are to retrieve           ideas, among others.
                 previous knowledge and students’                •   Closure stage-socialization: This
                 experiences with the language practice, and        stage has a number of goals. The first is
                 to plan steps and activities needed to craft       comprised of reviewing and preparing
                 a language product. A planning schedule is         the final version of the language product,
                 included, so students can check on what they       so it can be conveyed to the addressee
                 will be doing. Thus, students will know what       established in previous stages. The second
                 is expected of them, and they will be able to      is to assess the product itself, i.e., if it fulfills
                 identify in which steps or activities they will    the communicative, cultural and linguistic
                 require more support and in which they can         conventions established, and what its impact
                 act more independently. Also, planning the         on the addressee is. The third is to assess the
                 schedule allows students to take control of        learning process and its results with regard
                 the steps for creating a language product.         to the social language practice in order to:
                 That way, the steps can be completed in            a) identify rights and wrongs in performance
                 the time allocated to each practice. In this       and product; b) assess how to strengthen
                 stage, students identify their starting time       what has been done correctly and how to
                 and they can establish what they need to           resolve any problems, so they can be taken
                 know and what they need to know how to do          into account as soon as possible.
                 to become proficient users of the language
                 while producing a language product.


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