Teaching English Language

Teaching English Language

The Benefits of Manipulative Strategies

Students with dynamic, common sense, innovative, kinesthetic or tactile learning styles learn successfully when engaged in hands-on or practical tasks, cooperative learning or games. Thus, by means of using manipulative strategies students can have fun, which has been established to boost self-confidence, motivation and engagement. Also, the use of manipulative strategies in comparison with conventional instruction system usually had an optimistic effect on the achievement of a student (Harrell, 2004). This effect was constant and far-reaching but particularly valuable for high-risk learning for limited and disabled English proficient students. Moreover, manipulative strategies are ...