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Playing Around
Olha Madylus
Opposites Game
LoveHappyLearnWork
How important is play to you?
The healthy individual is someone who can work, play and love effectively
G. W. AllportPattern and Growth in Personality, 1961
In teaching children…
need to encourage free expression and natural playfulness…Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1762
Piaget
play leads to consolidation of newly learned behaviours… exposing the child to new experiences and new possibilities for dealing with the world
We encourage students to play with English:
To make them feel comfortableTo help the language be memorableTo practise languageTo facilitate involvement It’s motivatingBecause we recognise that language learning is affective as well as cognitive
learning is affective as
well as cognitive
Why play games?get attention
change paceget ‘into’ Englishmaximize practicestress-free
gameschallenge / competitionmakes language memorablecollaborative learningappeal to multiple intelligences
it’s it’s serious funserious fun
Csikszentmihalyi The theory
of flow
laughter and yoga
Laughter raises blood pressure just long enough to increase oxygen and blood supply to tissues. It alters the breathing cycle so that oxygen is inhaled and carbon dioxide exhaled. Muscles throughout the body tense and relax during laughter in exactly the same way as with stress reduction techniques such as yoga.
Thinking
…need to empower learners to think for themselves, Von Glaserfield
The fifth skill, John McRae
short versus long-term memory
The process of transferring information from STM to LTM involves the encoding or consolidation of information. This is a process of organization, the meaningfulness or emotional content of an item plays a vital role in its retention into LTM. As instructional designers, we must find ways to make learning relevant and meaningful enough for the learner to make the important transfer of information to long-term memory.
Woody Allen on Death
I’m not afraid to die.I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
‘Granny, have you lived here all your life?’
Not yet, son,not yet.
Humour in language teachingA good vehicle for providing cultural information
Builds bridges between culturesPractices language in genuine contextsBrings students closer togetherReleases tensionDevelops creative thinkingProvides memorable chunks of languageGenerates a happy classroom
Peter Medgyes, Laughing Matters, CUP