Role Cards

A huge family is considering a common holiday. Prepare a role card for one family member, which would enable the role-playing group to decide where to travel and what to do there.

Multiple Intelligences

Take some online tests and find yout more about yourself!

Howard Gardner's MI Theory

TEST 1 - Birmingham grid for learning
TEST 2 - MI for Adult Literacy
TEST 3 - JobQuiz

Motivation

What is motivation?


Lots of information you will, surprisingly, find in Wikipedia :)

Some simple, general, practical tips you can find HERE.

1. What is your motivation for studying this faculty?
2. What is your motivation for being in this lesson and doing this task?

Present your answers in the comments to this blog entry.

A compilation of ideas about motivation is available HERE.

You can learn the basics about Affective Domain HERE (Wikiversity, including tasks)

How does our brain work?

This image (click for a larger version) represents one of the easily-demonstrated a phenomenon caused by lateralisation - the distribution of various brain functions between the two hemispheres.

Have you ever tried to ask these questions?
1. What is the origin and purpose of lateralisation?
2. Do all mammals have two hemspheres? And what about birds? Reptiles?
3. What happens when a certain brain centre is damaged?

Learn more about lateralisation HERE (simple basics)or HERE (focus on information processing, aiming at learning styles).
Test your hemisphere dominance (a simple, reasonably valid online test).


The functions of our brain - including learning and acquisition processes - can be observed only indirectly, through our actions. Therefore the world is flooded with various theories concerning learning... but some of them seem to be more empirically supported than the others. Krashen's and Terrel's Natural Approach belongs to them.


"Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill." Stephen Krashen
(Sounds nice, doesn't it?)

Basic summary of Krashen’s Hypotheses

A Summary of Stephen Krashen's "Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition" - brief

Krashen and Terrell’s “Natural Approach” summary

Lectures on Krashen’s Theories