Make them Laugh, Make them Speak, and they Will Learn: Communicative Exercises in the Classroom

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, South Dakota State University, course: German 211, language: English, abstract: The greatest joy of learning a foreign language is to communicate in that language. But getting students to speak can be a challenge at times. Even though the commonly accepted communicative approach stresses speaking much more from day one than prior approaches, many students do not volunteer to speak in front of class a...