Their task was to draw and color their own graffiti onto their picture, which was a good way to integrate cross-curricular activities as it included Art. ... The groups moved around to each station every 30 minutes and in the last half hour of the afternoon, I taught the class how to count to five in German and provided them with number flashcards as an original resource. ... For example, the teacher may invite the head into his/her classroom and involve them in the lesson; show how the children can understand better when they are actively involved. ... If a child is not enjoying the work th...

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Also, when looking at a long-term picture, multimedia training is relatively cheap. ... It can show them what the trainee knows and does not know, what they have learned from using the media, how fast they learned the new information, and how they learned the new information. ... The last, and probably the strongest, argument for multimedia training is its effectiveness. ...

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Finally, the investigation reported in the previous chapter revealed that word characteristics (importance to the events of the story and informativeness of verbal and picture support) could not account for the vocabulary knowledge gains R and W reported. 2.2 Maximizing Volume These experiments provide unequivocal evidence that frequent reading encounters "work"; meeting words often makes it possible for learners to engage in the crucial process of formulating and testing hypotheses about meanings. ... Furthermore, as our brief venture in this direction showed, it is not at all clear that s...

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Throughout both of their works, Montaigne and Rabelais cite many past writers in a show of respect for their authority. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Although not pertaining directly to authority, they do show an idea of self-reliance (rather than dependence on any kind of authority). ... Montaigne quite clearly asserts that "truth and reason are common to all: they no more belong to the man who first put them into words than to him who last did so- (44). ...

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