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Playing Around

Playing Around. Olha Madylus. Opposites Game. Love Happy Learn Work. How important is play to you?. The healthy individual is someone who can work, play and love effectively G. W. Allport Pattern and Growth in Personality, 1961. In teaching children….

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Playing Around

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  1. Playing Around Olha Madylus

  2. Opposites Game Love Happy Learn Work

  3. How important is play to you? The healthy individual is someone who can work, play and love effectively G. W. Allport Pattern and Growth in Personality, 1961

  4. In teaching children… need to encourage free expression and natural playfulness… Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1762

  5. Piaget play leads to consolidation of newly learned behaviours… exposing the child to new experiences and new possibilities for dealing with the world

  6. We encourage students to play with English: To make them feel comfortable To help the language be memorable To practise language To facilitate involvement It’s motivating Because we recognise that language learning is affective as well as cognitive

  7. learning is affective as well as cognitive

  8. get attention change pace get ‘into’ English maximize practice stress-free Why play games?

  9. challenge / competition makes language memorable collaborative learning appeal to multiple intelligences it’s serious fun games

  10. Csikszentmihalyi The theory of flow

  11. 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.

  12. Thinking …need to empower learners to think for themselves, Von Glaserfield The fifth skill, John McRae

  13. short versus long-term memory

  14. 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.

  15. I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen on Death

  16. ‘Granny, have you lived here all your life?’

  17. Not yet, son, not yet.

  18. A good vehicle for providing cultural information Builds bridges between cultures Practices language in genuine contexts Brings students closer together Releases tension Develops creative thinking Provides memorable chunks of language Generates a happy classroom Peter Medgyes, Laughing Matters, CUP Humour in language teaching

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