I participated in the webinar “Communication: The human side”
by Vicki Hollett on Monday, 23 April 2012, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (GMT +01:00). I must say the author achieved the target and showed to the audience that communicative intelligence is indispensible in the modern society. It looks strange but people prefer to interact with “lovable fools” more than with “competent jerks”.
What is more, it is not enough to provide students with a list of useful expressions, grammatical structures. The updated concept of teaching implies that we teach pragmatic aspects of the linguistics competence as well. Vicki Hollett exemplified her thesis with extracts of the students’ book “Lifestyle”.
Vicki has demonstrated how we can upgrade our teaching of functions to provide our students with the language they really need to be effective in today’s world of work.
I would like to share the presentation…