HOW COULD ORIGAMI BE USEFUL FOR LEARNING ENGLISH?

Disfrutemos de un artículo muy interesante que nos presenta nuestra querida profesora Ángela Hurtado. Ella nos muestra que la creatividad es parte fundamental en el aprendizaje de cualquier tema.

Have you ever made some of this?

 

Have you ever wondered where does origami come from? Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. It literally translates as ori (folding) gami (paper). Well, this technique really could help you to develop important skills in the pedagogical field. According to (Ho, 2002), origami activities will open the class to different learning modes such as kinesthetic and visual auditory.

Some others educational benefits o are: behavioral skills, cooperative learning, a link to math, cognitive development, multi-cultural awareness, community building.

 The idea is to introduce the vocabulary that students will need when making origami, complex words and expressions might take a little longer.  Teachers, will be evaluating students’ comprehension by examining the final process. While students work on their funny projects, they get immersed into the foreign language.

Teachers, who have identified students with problems paying attention, can use this technique as a strategy for them to follow instructions. Origami also helps to show to the students that making mistakes is part of the process and that also sometimes those mistakes let to explore happy discoveries.

Our students in green light are already exploring this magic world of folding paper. Here we have one example. This is Natalia, she is nine and she had a really good time exploring this technique. She is really good at this, isn´t she? Now it is your turn…