Copyright (c) 2013 Northeastern University All rights reserved. http://iris.lib.neu.edu/languages_fac_pubs Recent documents in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 17:09:06 PDT 3600 http://iris.lib.neu.edu/languages_fac_pubs/1 http://iris.lib.neu.edu/languages_fac_pubs/1 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:54:41 PDT Creative Activities for Language Learning energizes students to think and to use language in new ways. By injecting humor whenever possible, motivation grows and develops. Used regularly, the group, pair, and single-person activities found here allows students to communicate on a vast array of subjects and try on an endless series of linguistic strategies. They combine the serious tasks with fanciful and creative thinking, self-disclosure and out-right silliness. The activities are also highly teacher-friendly. The groups are chosen, the topic explained, and the students converse until obliged to stop. Students talk, write and think creatively, all at the same time.

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