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Classroom Activities

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Chat Stations

Chat stations are low-prep, small-group discussions on different topics that allow students to practice asking and answering…

Find Someone Who…

This activity allows students to ask and answer questions with many different partners (ideally most if not all other students…

Four Corners - Conversations

This activity is designed to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of a message by moving around the classroom in…

Inside/Outside Circles

This cooperative learning strategy actively engages students as they work with multiple partners to ask and answer questions…

Peer Interviews

An interview is one-to-one, person-to-person communication and consists of a question or series of questions that are asked in…

Peer Surveys

This activity is designed to allow students to have short interpersonal interactions with as many classmates as possible in…

Rotating Partners (Line-up)

Students form two parallel lines somewhere in the classroom or other open space in order to be able to exchange information by…

Mode of Communication

  • (-) Interpersonal (7)
  • Interpretive (3)

Performance Range

Grade Level

  • (-) 3-5 (7)
  • 6-8 (16)
  • 9-12 (17)
  • K-2 (3)
  • Undergraduate (17)

Classroom Setting

  • Face-to-Face (7)
  • (-) Online (7)

GRR Stage

  • (-) We do (1)
  • You do alone (1)
  • (-) You do together (6)

Classroom grouping

  • Pairs (2)
  • Small group (1)
  • Whole class (5)

About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE

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