A didactic approach that emphasises the importance of social interaction
This approach is based on the principle that all human action and communication is largely influenced by the relationships between the people involved in it.
To put it very simply, we don't talk about the same things in the same way with the different people around us. The approach therefore stresses the importance of offering learners as wide a variety of communication situations as possible, enabling them to be in contact with different people.
However, institutional frameworks for teaching and learning generally offer peers, teaching staff and, in the case of telecollaboration, other distant learners only limited opportunities. Also, in many cases, the tasks do not present any particular social challenge, and their outcome is often aimed solely at the teacher. E-language citizenship resources therefore offer a new type of task called "real-life tasks".