Mediation: classroom activities for the skills needed for the 21st century workplace
Mediation: classroom activities for the skills needed for the 21st century workplace

Summary/Abstract: As an important element of our role as educators is to equip our students for their future careers, we surely need to think of how we are going to teach them particular skills. This goal can be achieved by recourse to the recently extended CEFR descriptor scales for mediation, as they go beyond the traditional four skills by focusing on developing: the facilitating of communication with a range of audiences, the collaborative building of meaning, and critical thinking. This article focuses on mediation and some of the dimensions that it can take and gives practical examples of teaching activities that can be used to employ mediation in the classroom.

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