The document discusses engaging students in language learning. It emphasizes that students learn best through involvement and immersion rather than passive listening. Several quotes are provided that support engaging students by challenging them at their level and ensuring they find the learning fun and enjoyable. The document also discusses how language learning works best by creating a lot from a little, using stories to teach lessons that will live with students, and learning by doing instead of just being told. It encourages discovering patterns in language and not setting aims too low in learning.

1. Engaging our students is critical
to improving their
learning
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2. - to make an effort to understand and
deal with someone or something
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3. We all learned our first language.
It was not a download!
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4. We learned by getting absorbed by the activity
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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5. We had incomparable powers of noticing and attention
Give whatever you are
doing and whoever you
are with the gift of
attention.
Jim Rohn
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6. We didn’t like being asked to do something we did’t
want to do!
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7. What works is being challenge at our level. Engagement
is the key to that!
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8. What happens when we go to school? Many times we
need to passively listen to the teacher.
People rarely succeed unless they are having fun in
what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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9. Of course there are changes as we grow up! We need
to deal with them as well.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavour he does not like.
Napoleon Hill
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10. Some are to do with habits of thought and the
emotions we generate.
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11. One answer in classes is to make sure students are
being involved and engrossed in what they do.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley
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12. We can show them that languages is
all about creating a lot from a little?
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
twenty one
twenty two
twenty three
twenty four
twenty five
twenty six
twenty seven
twenty eight
twenty nine
thirty
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fif
twenty
How many words do we have to learn to be able to count to 999,999?
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13. Is all language learning be like this?
The greatest danger for most of us lies in not setting our aim too
high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving
our mark.
Michelangelo
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14. "Tell me a fact and I’ll learn.
Tell me a truth and I’ll believe.
But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever."
North American Indian saying
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15. The Story of Professor Agassiz and the Fish
is a great story that tells us many things about what teachers need to do
AND about what learners need to do!
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.
John Holt.
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16. Discover from this
table:
- how many ways we
can say “a”
- When do the
sounds change
- Which other letters
cause it to change?
- In what spelling
environments does
it change?
- Etc
Enjoy the challenge!
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