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Diane Leonard Implementing The Strategy Of Role Play

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All good teachers know that learning builds on prior knowledge and experiences and one’s learning language is foundation for future learning (Nieto, S., & Bode, P.,2008). Providing opportunities to students, to make connections to their background knowledge will help increase their learning skills and build vocabulary through it. Moreover, using the strategy of Role-play will encourage learners to make those connections as well. Herrell and Jordan (2009) mentions that role –play enables the student to create experiences with which to link the new vocabulary. As watching Diane Leonard (Strategies on Video DVD) implementing the strategy of vocabulary role-play to her kindergartens, I noticed how well she modeled it for the students and how
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