Languages and Children: Chapter 4

The entire field of education heralds the positive impact that collaborative/cooperative learning can have on the success of many students. As this chapter discusses, peer interaction learning can help students make an emotional connection to the content, can help students discover the objective on their own, and it can help them develop social and language skills. This is especially important for students learning English because they have a lot of meaningful input experience and are prompted to producing meaning-making output (two essential parts of the SLA equation). One of my favorite activity examples was the "Finding differences: one picture" activity because it was a simple way to have students practice comparing two things. This is a skill they will need for the rest of their academic careers, on a deeper level.