Cooperative Learning and TBLT online using Discord as managing tool

Ramos Torres, Sergio
Ramírez Rodríguez, María Dolores (dir.)

Universidad de Zaragoza, FEDU, 2020
Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Área de Filología Inglesa

Máster Universitario en Profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanza de Idiomas, Artísticas y Deportivas

Resumen: The pandemic situation of 2020 has highlighted many problems in general, but regarding education, the teachers have experienced a sudden change in format and delivery of the content of their classes. From overnight the schools all over the country were closed and little to no information at all was given by the authorities on how to proceed with the lessons. Each school had to manage the outcome of their lectures thus, a good deal of confusion and communications problems rose. In this TFM I look at online education in particular due to the particularities of its implementation, and the three pillars of the unit plan I designed to comment on how it would work with an online approach. The three influences this work is based on are the communicative approach or CLT, the Task Based Teaching or TBLT and the Cooperative Learning methodology for the final project of the classroom. Being an online unit, I selected the Discord communicative tool to work with the class and I created the lessons accordingly, being imparted in servers in which the teacher will have total control of the situation and will be able to encourage interaction and communicative intercourse. This work will begin with a brief introduction followed by the theoretical framework used to design the unit plan. After that, the main critical analysis of the unit plan and finally a conclusion highlighting the most important aspects.

Tipo de Trabajo Académico: Trabajo Fin de Master