It makes you think! (NPF4)
Creating engagement, offering challenges

Barry Jones & Ann Swarbrick

Young teenagers are not easily persuaded by the argument that learning languages will be useful in later life. Certainly, including game-like activities in MFL lessons helps motivation, but pupils themselves frequently define fun in terms of challenges and hard-won success. Sustained positive experiences are the key. So what can be done?

It makes you think! explores the notion that normal practice can often be transformed by simple strategies that get pupils thinking and offer them challenges. The authors' ideas are supplemented by those of teachers and student teachers they have worked with over many years. They provide a new dimension in explicitly offering cognitive challenge to pupils. This book supports the aims of the Key Stage 3 MFL Strategy in developing thinking skills.

Contents

Introduction | Talk creates thought | Creating engagement, offering challenges | It makes you think | Thinking about what learning a foreign language is all about | Talking about learning – the plenary phase | Conclusion | Appendix: Ideas for a lively start to MFL lessons

2004 | 80pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-34-2 | ISBN-10:1-904243-34-7 | £12 | Order this title online

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See also:
Action stations!
Doing it for themselves (CPF4)

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