Experiences in the use of hot potatoes to elaborate exercises for English language lessons
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exercise, language teaching, Higher EducationAbstract
This paper explores the usefulness of an Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) tool known as Hot Potatoes to elaborate exercises for English language lessons to contribute to the enhancement of the students' communicative competencies and, ergo, to the formation of highly proficient professionals in our universities, after the implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL) in Cuban Higher Education under the new policy for English language teaching and learning. In it, an analysis of the types of exercises used to evaluate learners by the standards of the CEFRL, as well as of the concepts and characteristics of Hot Potatoes as an alternative tool for devising exercises for English language lessons was made. To carry it out, several methods and techniques of scientific research were used, such as analysis-synthesis, historical-logical, hermeneutics, interviews, etc. Finally, some examples exercises using this tool for the English language lessons at the Language Centre of Holguin are provided in it.
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