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Teaching Creativity in the Age of Hyperreality: What Jean Baudrillard Can Tell Us About Language Learning
When Jean Baudrillard wrote about the precession of simulacra in 1981, he described a world where representations precede and determine reality itself. We no longer experience the real, he argued, but navigate through endless layers of signs, copies without originals, simulations that have become more real than reality. At the time, this seemed like philosophical abstraction. Today, scrolling through Instagram, interacting with ChatGPT, or watching deepfake videos, his observ
The Need for a Systematic Approach to Achieve True Communicative Competence
The primary and foremost goal when learning foreign languages is to acquire communicative competence, which means having the ability to...
The Communicative Approach Era Ends, Making Way for the Systematic Approach
Acquiring communicative competence, the ability to effectively and accurately use a foreign language in communication, is the primary goal of learning foreign languages. This competence encompasses various language skills, including speaking, writing, reading, and listening, along with socio-cultural skills enabling individuals to understand and express themselves in different communicative situations. Foreign language thinking, which underlies spontaneous speech and comprehe
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