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Teaching Integrated Skills Through Arts & Crafts in the EFL Classroom
Learner diversity in the classroom is both an asset and obstacle for teachers. Students can contribute a diverse range of human experiences, background knowledge, perspectives, multiple intelligences, and talents to enrich a learning environment. However, learner diversity presents challenges for English language teachers. Affective factors, cognitive differences, and multiple learning preferences influence the efficacy a student learns, uses, and applies new knowledge. Teachers must account for learner diversity when presenting, teaching, and ultimately having their students demonstrate understanding. This is an important consideration in the EFL classroom, where young students should be simultaneously fostering critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills through the acquisition of a foreign language. This workshop is designed to offer participants a variety of creative strategies to apply arts and crafts in the classroom to teach, supplement, or extend the content of the national English curriculum. Participants will gain insight on techniques to integrate the teaching and production of language skills through visual and interactive activities that can motivate, lower affective filters, and activate the skills of diverse learners. The workshop will begin with a presentation of various projects, where participants can evaluate the benefits of a range of hands-on tasks for young learners. The latter half of the session is set up for station learning, allowing participants to examine various projects, examples, and procedures at their own pace and time to reflect on various approaches to foreign language teaching in their own classrooms.
About Angie Lee
Angie Lee is an instructor at Gyeonggi-do Institute for Language Education and currently trains in-service public elementary and secondary school teachers in EFL education. She received her Master of Education degree in International Teaching from Framingham State University in 2018. She has over 11 years of experience teaching EFL in South Korea at the elementary, secondary, and adult level.
