Welcome to this edublog.

It is initially started to help batxiller students with their “spoken/written English”

Scott Thornbury, in his book How to Teach Speaking, explains how to use some writing activities to give our students a controlled practise to imporve their speaking, and he proposes a computer-mediated chat or a forum by saying:

“Researchers (…) have also shown that two hours per week in a chatroom (or answering to a forum) has a significant effect on learners’ oral proficiency, compared to learners who don’t have this option.”

“… by exchanching typed lines of text is an effecting way of talking in “slow motion” the talk (…) is sufficiently slowed down to by the need to type so that some attention is… available to focus on imporving the quality of the output…”