An Introduction to teaching mediation with Tim Goodier

Discuss the following topics:

1. Real-life communication and language skills
2. Language ability and language systems (linguistic competencies)
3. Real-life communication and the combination of communication modes/language activities
4. The principle of successful communication according to the CEFR
5. The CEFR update
6. Types of mediation
7. Mediating texts
8. Mediating concepts (the concept of languaging)
9. Mediating communication
10. Relevance of mediation for the development of soft skills
11. What mediation is not
12. Examples of mediation in the classroom
13. Examples of mediating strategies
14. Examples of mediation at lower levels
15. Classroom opportunities for mediation
16. Considerations for teaching mediation
17. Adapting mediation descriptors
18. Scaffolding mediation tasks
19. The self-reflection phase

Languaging is an activity, a “process of making meaning and shaping knowledge and experience through language” (Swain, 2006, p. 98),  

it is part of the process of learning. The verb languaging forces us to understand language as a process rather than as an object.

Swain, M. (2006). Languaging, agency, and collaboration in advanced second language learning.  In H. Byrnes (Ed.), Advanced language learning: The contributions of Halliday and Vygotsky (pp. 95–108). London, England: Continuum.