Resumen:
This paper shows how to apply the recommendations of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) using social-networking technology.
The CEFR is the result of more than twenty years of research. It is a framework of reference that provides tools, guidelines, and resources for the development of language curricula, textbooks, assessments tools, and programs to support the teaching of languages.
The CEFR suggest the use of the action-oriented approach as teaching methodology for learning languages. This approach considers the student as an active participant in the learning process and a user of the language. Communication is understood as a social activity designed to accomplish specific tasks. Following this approach the language is acquired by performing a set of meaningful tasks in a real-life environment.
Nowadays the real-life environment of our students includes the interaction through social networks. They have grown up using technology and they are used to using social-networking technology in their daily life as a way to communicate. The popularity of social networking is not limited to the personal sphere. It provides access to real materials, and social a...