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Do you know about the Big Five Personality Traits?  According to the theory of the Big Five Personality Traits , we can describe ourselves with five main characteristics: open, conscientious, extravert, agreeable, neurotic. Each of us varies in how much of each trait is shown in our personality.  In order to understand what each trait really means let's look at these five characters and how they cope after they rank their boat and are stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean.  💻📱👥 COLLABORATIVE   ONLINE TASK IN PAIRS Identify your dominant personality traits. 1. Watch the video on the Big Five Personality Traits. 2. Take notes on the names and descriptions of these traits. 3. Write about your own dominant personality traits. 4. Use Google slides to make a presentation about it. 💻📱👤 INDIVIDUAL   ONLINE TASK  1. Watch the video again.  2. Do the Personality Traits Quzziz by clicking here . 💻📱👤 FINAL REFLECTIONS  Now, can you iden...

Reflecting on our learning path and on our learning outcome can contribute to a more enriching learning experience. By focusing on our learning needs we can have an impact on our learning outcomes. In fact, metacognition is knowing what we know by reflecting on both our declarative and our procedural knowledge. According to Anderson (1976) and Winograd (1975), our declarative knowledge is knowing about something while our procedural knowldege consists of knowing how to do something.  You can do so, by answering key questions about your English learning process. 1. Which are my strengths? Reflect on the language skills you are competent and can master in English. Are you good at listening to someone in English? Can you understand an English written text? Can you interact in a conversation easily? Do you know how to write an article in a competent way? These are some of the questions you need to ask youself in order to recognize your English language strenghts. 2. Which are my weakne...

 Language Interaction Communication includes creating a message that contains meaning.  Language interaction  refers to the process of communication and exchange of ideas, thoughts, or information through language. It involves how individuals or systems use linguistic tools (spoken, written, or non-verbal symbols) to interact with each other, understand one another, and convey meaning. Human-to-Human Interaction includes: Conversation:  People use language to have dialogues, express feelings, and share information. Cultural Exchange:  Language is often influenced by and evolves through interactions between people of different cultures. Non-verbal Cues:  Gestures, tone, and body language often complement spoken language in interactions. Moreover, language interaction involves using certain phrases which represent specific language funcitons in order to communicate effectively in a particular context. Do you know some useful phrases to c...

Effective Communication Understanding the elements of communication is essential in order to communicate more effectively in English. As a matter of fact, communication includes 5 basic elements: the sender, the receiver, the message, the medium and feedback. Moreover, effective communication involves developing our communicative competence. What exactly is communicative competence? In "Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing" (Applied Linguistics, 1980), Michael Canale and Merrill Swain identified these four components of communicative competence : Grammatical competence includes knowledge of phonology, orthography, vocabulary, word formation and sentence formation. Sociolinguistic competence includes knowledge of sociocultural rules of use.  Discourse competence is related to the learners' mastery of understanding and producing texts (cohesion and coherence) Strategic competence refers to compensatory strategies (repetition,...