Participants learn to develop instructional strategies that promote a learner-centered classroom in which students practice newly acquired vocabulary and structural patterns in the context of real world language use and move toward increased communicative proficiency. Cooperative learning strategies are developed.

Studies show that children of all abilities and backgrounds can learn another language with the right kind of instruction and help. This workshop will discuss the significance of the early start recommended by the National Standards and provide a variety of practical methods and strategies to reach the diverse children entering the language classroom.