Using Interactive Board and Communication in Teaching English at Lower-Secondary Stage of Elementary School

• Authors: Alena Dobrovolná
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The contribution brings part of the research results on using interactive boards in teaching English at lower-secondary stage of elementary schools in the Czech Republic. The whole research focused on ways of using this modern device, on types of interaction and mainly tried to find out whether there is sufficient space for developing communicative competence through oral interaction. Here mainly the part about forms of interaction is described.

Keywords

EN

interactive whiteboard; learner; teacher; forms of interaction; communication; oral interaction

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Practice and Theory in Systems of Education
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 16-22

Dates

received

2014-11-30

accepted

2015-01-31

online

2015-03-01

Contributors

author

Alena Dobrovolná

• Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ptse-2015-0002