{"id":5326,"date":"2015-03-30T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2015-03-30T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T10:56:42","slug":"using-blogs-and-forums-with-higher-level-learners-cambridge-english-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5326","title":{"rendered":"Using blogs and forums with higher-level learners (Cambridge English Blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 9 | April 6<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When thinking about using blogs and forums in the classroom, higher-level learners seem to be the obvious choice of target audience.\u00a0 They certainly make the teacher\u2019s job easier:\u00a0 they can understand instructions more easily and therefore don\u2019t need as much guidance to get to the right places online. Higher-level learners also have greater linguistic resource, so it\u2019s easier to think of interesting topics for them to write about. Perfect, no?<!--more--><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-660\"><\/span><br \/>\nNot quite, but blogs and forums do provide us with a very effective way of challenging more advanced learners. These tools give students that measure of expressive freedom that they don\u2019t necessarily get at lower levels, given that the proportion of controlled practice gets higher the further down the levels you go.\u00a0 When students are at B2 and beyond, they have enough language to get stuck into some chunky subjects and show off what they know, think and feel.<\/p>\n<p>All of this may be true, but we might still ask: do students want to show off, or do they still need some structure within which to express themselves?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/elt\/blog\/2014\/04\/using-blogs-forums-higher-level-learners\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read full article<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 9 | April 6, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] When thinking about using blogs and forums in the classroom, higher-level learners seem to be the obvious choice of target audience.\u00a0 They certainly make the teacher\u2019s job 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