<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c8e1a76b-4cf0-4019-b4ea-6db70e53e05f/DBA1D69E-2EA1-4D35-8F2A-6B4E5277909F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/Call/call-entorno50.html" href="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/Call/call-entorno50.html" style="font-size: 11px;">campus.funiber.org:8900</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/Call/call-entorno50.html"><FONT color="#000000"> 7.3.1 Active learning</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/Call/call-entorno50.html"><P> <FONT face="Arial, Times New Roman">However, students should not become 'consumers' of learning materials; rather, they should be able to take responsibility for their own learning, something that used to be the teacher's responsibility.<B> </B><B>Active learning</B> then involves mindful processing of information, and responsibility on the learner's part for the results of that learning. The language learner should be encouraged to take decisions, plan his/her own studies, and assess him/herself. In other words, the learner should monitor his/her own performance, contrasting his/her output with what has been learnt and considering the impact on the interlocutor. </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://campus.funiber.org:8900/web-ct/courses/TEFL/contents/Call/call-entorno50.html"><I>The language learner's role as an experimenter and researcher in the classroom should not be underestimated: actively and often consciously exploring language and communication should constitute an important activity in the language classroom.<BR />(Ruschoff 1992:9)</I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBA1D69E-2EA1-4D35-8F2A-6B4E5277909F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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