Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 27

In the classroom the students sit two side by side – each at their own desk. I gave
each of the pairs the same one drawing, and asked them to colour in, as nicely as
possible, either the left half or the right half, depending on their seat:
They needed not to peek at their deskmate’s colouring, so they put their pencil-
cases up between them on the desks! They all coloured in:
When they were done, each student specified to her or his deskmate, in English,
how to colour the other half so that – in the end – they would have the same identical
picture! I asked them to use either commands, or sentences, and to repeat each phrase or
sentence two or three times before moving on. They always did great, and although some
‘cheating’ did occur at times, language transfer did take place because there was still an
association with what they heard and what they were colouring:
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