Jennifer had long enjoyed doing crossword puzzles and taking vocabulary quizzes. She had always had a real skill for understanding English words and their meanings. She had a vast knowledge of grammar rules and had been a spelling bee champion on multiple occasions. With her interest and skills rooted deeply in these areas, she decided very quickly and easily that she wanted to help others learn her native language. She took course work on how to teach others a second language and, with the huge need for her services, was able to begin working right away. Her students ranged from the recently immigrated, to foreign students studying in the States, to older men and women who had long spoken another language as their way of communicating. Aside from her one on one work with her students, Jennifer worked added several immersion exercises into her teaching plans. Her strategies were fun for her students but also very effective when it came to immersing her students in activities where they were required to visually and mentally process language. There are some really fun and easy immersion opportunities which language teachers suggest their students explore to help them get a better grasp of the language they are learning.
The first immersion opportunity a teacher can suggest to students is participation in a language camp. Having a student get the opportunity to attend a language camp gives them a chance to participate in very focused and planned language activities. They will be surrounded by a number of others who are learning as they are and they will be influenced by skilled teachers guiding their daily activities. The camp structure lends itself nicely to full immersion, as a student often attends for several days at a time, limiting outside influences and distractions.
The second immersion exercise a teacher can have students partake in is to watch movies or television programs which have been dubbed into the language. This is a visual and auditory exercise and it is at its most effective when a student has some familiarity with the movie or show context prior to viewing. Along these lines, incorporating subtitles can be a beneficial exercise as well. The discipline of incorporating the two learning methods of visual and auditory as ways to comprehend, provides a very integrated approach to learning.
The third immersion exercise which can pay dividends for students is listening to music or other auditory tapes from the language being learned. Music in particular can be a very valuable tool for teaching. Language accompanied by music can often be easily remembered and can be listened to over and over again with ease and enjoyment.
The final immersion technique is to have learners engage in study groups with other learners. Group learning is an excellent tool, as peers help each other learn by participating in conversations with one another and by encouraging good study habits within the group. Group learning provides a low stress environment and can build camaraderie and friendships among those sharing the same goal.
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His wife signed up for quizzes online for English words her daughter is learning for the SAT test.
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