Enhance your students’ success and improve the likelihood of retention with the easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book! Bestselling author Deborah Blaz shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience and explore a world language. The new edition features updates in every chapter and incorporates the latest ACTFL standards, more information on teaching with authentic resources, a new chapter on teaching with technology, and additional resources for personalized learning. It is organized to allow you to easily find and pull activities you want to use in your classroom the very next day. You’ll learn how to…
- mix up your repertoire of activities, games, and exercises to keep students engaged;
- introduce students to the culture of the language you teach by hosting parties and celebrations;
- overcome some of the biggest obstacles in the path to fluency, including verb conjugation, using object pronouns, and the subjunctive mood;
- customize your teaching strategies to accommodate a broader range of talents, skills, and intelligences;
- implement new assessment strategies to improve verbal skills and reading comprehension;
- and more!
Bonus: Downloadable versions of some of the resources in this book are available on the Routledge website at www.routledge.com/9781032258294 so you can print and distribute them for immediate classroom use.
Author(s): Deborah Blaz
Edition: 3
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 273
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Support Material
Meet the Author
New to the Third Edition
How to Use This Book
1. Action Learning in Theory and in Practice
Definition
Does Active Learning Really Work?
Student Perception of Active Learning
Brain Research
Education Abroad
Making it Meaningful
Finding Authentic Resources: Suggestions
2. Research-based Active Learning Practices
Gardner’s Eight Intelligences and their Applications
Marzano’s Nine Instructional Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning
Comprehensible Input (CI)
3. Revitalizing the Basics
Greetings
Numbers
Telling Time
Alphabet
Family
Calendar
Weather
Nationalities
Food and Drink
Clothing
Colors
Body Parts
Prepositions
Object Pronouns
Asking Questions
Activities that Work for any Subject
Using Whiteboards
Flashcard Activities Galore
Pronunciation Skills
Dictionary Skills
4. Celebrations
Twitter/Instagram Search
Bingo
Poetry
Dominoes
Mad-Libs
Venn Diagrams
Video Skits
Internet Sources
August
Back to School
September
October
November
December
January
February
March/April
May
June
Miscellaneous Celebrations
5. Getting over the Rough Spots
Verb Conjugation Activities, in General
Future Tense
Reflexive Verbs
Subjunctive
Preterit/Passé Composé
Imperfect vs. Preterit/Passé Composé
Object Pronouns
Handling Mainstreamed/Special Ed Students
6. Instruction and Alternative Assignments in Literature and Adding Active Learning to Assessment Practices
Do a Pre-Reading Assessment
Stop Frequently to Process Material
Assess Frequently
Journals
Portfolios
7. Adding Active Learning to Technology Use and Final Thoughts on Active Learning
Adapting Common Online Activities for Active Learning
Strategies to Generate and Encourage Active Learning Online
SAMR
Good Resources
Final Thoughts
References
