TLC Pack stands for Teaching Languages to Caregivers and is a course designed to support migrants working or hoping to work in the caregiving sector. The TLC Pack resources range from A2 to B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and will be made available online in the six project languages: Dutch, English, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. TLC Pack will also be available as paper-based materials (PDF) and on a specially designed language learning platform (http://language-for-caregivers.eu). In this paper, we touch upon three challenges we faced during the development of the materials.
This paper focuses on the possibilities/challenges for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers designing tasks grounded in Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and taking advantage of the affordances of technology-Interactive WhiteBoards (IWBs). Teachers have been shown to confuse tasks with exercises or activities. The interactive Technologies in Language Teaching (iTILT) projects revealed that when it comes to IWB use the focus often shifts from interactive teaching to interactive technology. To better prepare novice EFL teachers for their future teaching practice, an 'IWB for TLBT' training programme introduced the affordances of IWBs. Our analysis of how (un)successful they were at marrying TBLT and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) operationalised TBLT criteria from Nunan (2004) and Erlam (2016). Supporting evidence of the participants' aptitude in TBLT practice is provided by a traditional, non-IWBoriented task each individual had designed earlier. Combining both elements in the analysis, our study answers the question: to what extent are pre-service teachers able to design a TBLT environment involving modern technology that adheres to iTILT principles and current theories of TBLT methodology?
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