Foreign Language Teacher's Guide to Active Learning

The easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book will help middle and high school foreign language teachers enhance their students' success. It shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience, experiment and discover a foreign language. It applies brain research, multiple intelligences, alternative assessment, technology and other educational innovations to the foreign language classroom.

Positive transfer is especially easy when the two skills (new and old)are similar:
learning one Romance language makes learninga second one easier, for
example. When similaritiesexist with“old” material,the brainsimply adds the newto
theold, and stores it as a chunkof information. Metaphors, analogies, and similes
are especially effective ways topromote positive transfer. For example, telling
students that conjugating averb is likesmoking a cigar: first,thetipis clipped off,
which is like ...