Classroom Activities that Best Facilitate Learning
Keywords:
Facilitate, Learning, ActivitiesAbstract
Teaching and classroom materials today consequently make use of a wide variety of small-group activities.
Since the language classroom is intended as a preparation for survival in the real world and since real communication is a defining characteristic of CLT, an issue which soon emerged was the relationship between classroom activities and real life. Some argued that classroom activities should as far as possible mirror the real world and use real world or “authentic” sources as the basis for classroom learning. Clarke and Silberstein (1977, 51) thus argued: