Engaging students' imaginations in second language learning
Engaging students' imaginations in second language learning

Summary/Abstract: Imagination is rarely acknowledged as one of the main workhorses of learning. Unfortunately, disregarding the imagination has some clearly negative pedagogical impacts: Learning is more ineffective than it should be and much schooling is more tedious than it need be. In this paper we outline a somewhat new way of thinking about the process of students' language education. We focus on the kinds of "cognitive tools" or learning "toolkits" human beings develop as they grow up, which connect emotion and imagination with knowledge in the learning process. We show how employing these tools --indeed how they central employment in all aspects pf planning - can make learning other languages engaging and meaningful.

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