Lesson 4: Class Culture

Review

1. In the framework advocated by Weinstein et al., discipline or even "tough love" would be considered an integral part of the "caring classroom."

2. According to Horwitz, emulating a native speaker is a prerequisite for success in teaching or learning a foreign language.

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Reflect

Collaborate with a group of peers, each one focused on a learning style: visual, auditory, kinesthetic. Have a short conversation on what each style entails, and then come up with questions and queues that you will train students in a first-semester language class to use as they interact with students with different learning styles.

[Note: The point of the exercise is not to identify students' learning styles, but to work with them in a way that supports their learning styles.]

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