A Presentation by David Nunan

I found a very interesting presentation by David Nunan on educating young learners for the 21st century. In this presentation, he talks about the ART of teaching English to learners of another language. This acronym ART stands for awareness, repetition and transformation: making our learners aware of specific vocabulary or language structures; repeting those language items and using the structures and the vocabulary that they´d been acquiring to do other things with the language, to achieve things other than manipulating the language. This is the key concept of TBLT, using language not to manipulate the language itself but to get things done with the language. 

He also states that language is a tool for communicating and a tool for learning. We cannot learn without language. 

I believe it is a very interesting talk all in all! It´s worth watching!!!