Listening, Thinking and Acting
Virtual Language Resource Center
San Carlos IED - Alejandro Obregón School - Enrique Olaya Herrera School
Bogotá - Colombia 2015 - 2019
Listening to, thinking and sharing ideas and views!
ICTs will provide participant learners with sources and resources that will be adapted and selected considering needs, interests, language levels, and expectations, contributing to consolidate learners’ language skills.
In doing so, the VLRC may facilitate such process by permitting participant learners approach diverse tasks according to their language level, communication needs and age range.
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Participants and School Contexts
This center was created to give the SL students at Enrique Olaya Herrera, San Carlos, and Alejandro Obregón public schools the possibility to use and access a plethora of virtual resources for them to study and practice English (English as a foreign Language -EFL, particularly).
Setting up and optimizing a VLRC at these three public schools may foster 10th graders’, (between 14 and 19 years old) their L2 skills and knowledge through different information sources, at their own pace and by assuming new roles (Paquette, 2002, p. 3).
Likewise, students will have the possibility to practice their different language skills, systems and functions in the L2, this notwithstanding, our VLRC will have the LISTENING skill as its main goal. Students will be practicing their reading, writing and speaking as supporting skills which naturally link together.
Students will undertake specific tasks (Paquette, 2002, p. 6) that undoubtedly will require students to use online resources like voice messages, pictures, videos, and forums which accompany their communication interaction among them and potentially with other people on the web.
