AE Live 5.5: Making Grammar and Vocabulary Learning Stick by Weaving a Critical Thinking Web HD

This session is part of the American English Live! teacher professional development series. For more resources to teach and learn English, visit http://americanenglish.state.gov If you, as many teachers, think that critical thinking can only come after all the language-learning basics are mastered, then this interactive session will set that idea on its head. Unlike babies learning their mother tongue, our learners have complex minds. Lists of definitions and rules fail to engage that complexity, and so most of them are forgotten. Critical thinking learning activities engage more of their brain’s interconnections. As a result, new words and grammatical patterns stick and become more available for productive language. This webinar will show some ways to weave our grammar and vocabulary objectives into that interconnected web.