How can we use the Art learning advantages in the English classroom?

ART IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM

In the english classroom the teacher should provide the students with opportunities to express themselves and, also, with interesting materials to generate motivation. From my point of view, the teacher can figure it out with the ART.

The children feel good when they are creating something new, what helps their self-conficence. We, as english teachers, should know how important is the confidence when you try to learn a new language, you need to be able to make mistakes, to experiment, to rephrase and repeat... For that reason, if we need secure students we need to give them resources in relation with self.esteem, such us artistic contents.




Here you have an example; There are so many museums, like the Louvre Museum and the Prado Museum, which have in their websites virtual visits and resources for the schools. It can be an interesting method to show the children how important is the art in the world, and at the same time, we are working with them multicultural knowledge.

We can also use the art as a graphic support for the new english contents. For example, we can use the page: http://kidmons.com/game/paint-online to draw and write new vocabulary words online with different colours and materials. Moreover, in this page we can save and print the children designs.

This site is really easy and simple to use, it can be perfect to use in a digital blakboard for young learners.

Another page in relation with the art, but more complex that the precious one: http://www.colorwithleo.com/artstudio.php. This page teach the children how to draw animals or simple figures with oral instructions in english, there are also some games to make a portrait, to exercise the memory with the colours, puzzles, complete shades,etc. In the english clasroom we can use this page to introduce and support new contents in a dinamyc and funny way for the children.