Publication details
To Dare or Not to Dare
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In this workshop you are going to experience one of the lessons intended for the English Autonomously module - Emotional Intelligence. The topic of the lesson is courage; but it also touches on self-reflection and self-confidence, and of course fear. These topics are so intrinsically familiar to all us that everybody can relate to them and the learning of the language than becomes smoother. Plus, there is a bonus of actually learning the strategies one can use when in need of more courage, and that comprises everyday situations. Students get invariably very involved as they are motivated to manage their own fears and lives better. In terms of language, they learn the vocabulary connected with courage - which might, in fact, be very different from their mother tongue - and feelings; they practice conditionals and hypothetical tenses, narrative strategies and most importantly structures like “I would have never realized that…“ that are closely linked with self-evaluation skills so much needed for „learning to learn“ and taking one´s learning into one´s own hands. This workshop is a complement to the presentation Emotional Intelligence in Foreign Language Acquisition. |
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