ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE 18Translate That!
| Complexity involved in | |
| Planning | LOW |
| Developing Materials | LOW |
| Implementing in Class | MODERATE |
Description and Purpose
In Translate That! the instructor pauses a lecture and calls on a student at random to “translate” the recently provided information into plain English for an imagined audience that the teacher specifies. The goal is for the student to restate what he or she just heard in the lecture in a manner that remains true to the original idea but using his or her own voice. The translation should move beyond a simple reversal of the sentence structure or replacement of some of the words with synonyms to a restatement that communicates the true meaning of the original but in more ...
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