The eighth workshop of CEFR Online Workshop Series 2022 entitled "Mediation in/for the language classroom - Learning situations and formative assessment" took place on Thursday, 3 November 2022.
The implementation of such a rich construct as mediation to language learning offers a wide array of pedagogical opportunities, notably the possibility of designing new learning situations and fostering formative assessment. In this webinar the participants explored both these dimensions by focusing on the KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities) required when mediating in a foreign language and how these KSAs can be integrated in learning activities and in self- and peer-assessment rubrics for students to monitor their output.
The workshop was facilitated by Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado. Mr Cuadrado holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting (ES, EN, DE) from the University of Granada (Spain), an MA in Foreign Language Pedagogy from the University of Delaware (USA) and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Granada.
He is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Granada. He has also taught at the University of Delaware 1999-2000, at the Modern Language Centre of the University of Granada 2000-2016, and at University College London 2016-2018. His research interests lie within the fields of pedagogical translation, linguistic mediation, cross-linguistic cognitive grammar, and language teacher training. He has edited a monograph on mediation in language learning (Mediación en el aprendizaje de lenguas, Anaya 2022). He contributed as main translator to the official translation of the CEFR Companion volume into Spanish.
The working language of the workshop was English.
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Watch the Presentation (42:48)
Watch Discussion I - Familiarisation with rubrics (16:02)
Watch Discussion II - Designing a rubric (11:28)
