Tuesday, March 3, 2009

What If A Dog Eats A Loaf Of Bread

Students in the role of teachers to encourage language learning: an interesting experiment

Some high school students Cholla in Tucson, Arizona, in two days going to class II and V in two in a bilingual elementary schools to teach Chinese. The idea came to their Chinese teacher, Kimberly Gaskill STARTALK after participating in the program - a program held in different units of the country to provide useful strategies for teachers - at the University of Arizona. Once you have made with their teacher and have designed learning units, Gaskill students take lessons to children on culture and language they have already learned: for example, having rehearsed the numbers have taught to read dates. The result is positive for older students, after an initial approach is a bit 'hesitant, took over satisfaction with the results obtained, for children the experience has been one occasion in times of economic hardship of learning a language even if there is money. The success of the experiment led Kimberly Gaskill to contact other teachers in China to expand the project. The teacher explained that although the project did not pretend to go to replace the teacher is a starting point to stimulate children's interest in languages \u200b\u200band encourage them to study them once in high school.

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