USING DELIBERATIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUA

Deliberating Across the Curriculum: Using Deliberative Techniques in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom offers hands-on material for integrating role plays, simulations, debates, speeches, and presentations in the ESL classroom. Utilizing these deliberative techniques is a proven approach for improving critical thinking and cultural/social skills while teaching language skills. Using deliberative techniques forces students to abandon translating word for word and to internalize English. Students think, process, and analyze in English and put language to use