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| Contentid | 1951 |
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| Title | Motivating students to use target language |
| Body | I haven't done this for 2-3 years, but I used to to use this method with a lot of success: I had a candle for every section. I'd light it at the beginning of the class period and for as long as Spanish is spoken during the class period,it remains lit. When the candle burns out, we have a party or some other voted upon reward. It serves as a nice visual motivation. I remind the students that sometimes it will be me that blows the candle out if I feel we really need to clarify some issues. I have 7th and 8th grade and have only done it with the 8th grade. Some modifications might have to be made at the beginning of a level one course -- or the candle simply needs to be smaller! Of course, I know there are issues of being able to use a candle in some schools -- so perhaps for those that have continual computer projection can use a countdown time that has been set for 6 hours or there could even be a picture on the board with a stopwatch on the side and these minute totals could be charted. Most of my kids really got into the whole deal and really helped each other out. Rundquist, J. 100% target language. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (17 Aug. 2004). |
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| Inputdate | 2004-08-20 14:23:00 |
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