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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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