Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them. Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments. (Human growth and the development of personality, Jack Kahn, Susan Elinor Wright, Pergamon Press)
We can apply this to our English lessons, using this powerful tool to make children learn and lose the fear to communicate in a foreign language.
That's why last week of December we pretended to be thieves and police. We had a robbery at the Toy Shop, so we had to call the police to catch the thief and put him into the jail.
The dramatization of the characters, the vocabulary and phrases used make students to interact with others in a foreign language, learn in a funny way, which makes them improve their oral expression.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario