ID Theory 1: :
ID Theory 1: Experiential Learning Theory
Significant learning=Knowledge + Personal interests
Activity: Job Hunting :
Activity: Job Hunting Ask my students (English majors in a Chinese university) to:
Look for a job position
Go through job application process
Evaluate their job hunting experience and share it with their classmates
Justifications: :
Justifications: Job hunting
is relevant to students’ interests
help students learn through personal
teach students to be open to change through self-evaluation
ID Theory 2: :
ID Theory 2: Cognitive Flexibility Theory
the ability of applying existing knowledge to novel situations
Activity: Word Guessing :
Activity: Word Guessing groups of 3 (ELLs of low-to-medium proficiency )
one word guesser and two word describers in each group
gestures and body language are allowed
3 minutes to guess 15 words in PPt slides
The group who has the most number of words guessed correctly wins.
Justifications: :
Justifications: This activity involves
multiple conceptual representations of English words
learning to be adaptive changing situational demands
application of existing knowledge in new situations.
Slide 8:
The following slides will show how the “Word Guessing Activity” would look like.
Slide 9:
Guess the Words
Slide 10:
theater
Slide 11:
thief
Slide 12:
postcard
Slide 13:
mosquito
Slide 14:
monster
Slide 15:
vegetarian
Slide 16:
movie
Slide 17:
festival
Slide 18:
library
Slide 19:
triangle
Slide 20:
yellow
Slide 21:
continue
Slide 22:
relationship
Slide 23:
compare
Slide 24:
valley
Slide 26:
Colleagues
Slide 27:
benefactor
Slide 28:
novels
Slide 29:
headmaster
Slide 30:
secret
Slide 31:
dictionary
Slide 32:
diary
Slide 33:
pets
Slide 34:
silver
Slide 35:
afraid
Slide 36:
necessary
Slide 37:
party
Slide 38:
Fashion
Slide 39:
cousin
Slide 40:
friendship
Slide 42:
shudder
Slide 43:
holiday
Slide 44:
traveling
Slide 45:
knowledge
Slide 46:
tears
Slide 47:
natural
Slide 48:
science
Slide 49:
gentle
Slide 50:
practice
Slide 51:
separate
Slide 52:
repeat
Slide 53:
seasons
Slide 54:
prize
Slide 55:
brown
Slide 56:
Snakes
Slide 58:
team-mate
Slide 59:
butterflies
Slide 60:
infidelity
Slide 61:
stone
Slide 62:
cool
Slide 63:
bottom
Slide 64:
single
Slide 65:
twentieth
Slide 66:
touch
Slide 67:
receive
Slide 68:
white
Slide 69:
angry
Slide 70:
middle
Slide 71:
straight
Slide 72:
dress
Slide 74:
caricature
Slide 75:
Pizza
Slide 76:
surface
Slide 77:
deep
Slide 78:
island
Slide 79:
temperature
Slide 80:
heavy
Slide 81:
Whales
Slide 82:
Coffee
Slide 83:
nothing
Slide 84:
enemy
Slide 85:
company
Slide 86:
enough
Slide 87:
kangaroo
Slide 88:
tofu