Vanessa Howard

My class is medical but this activity can apply to any area of study.  I like to do a class activity to help students appreciate the delicate nature of a language barrier.  I ask for two volunteers who can speak another language (other than english) and preferably two different languages, i.e. Korean and Spanish.  
One of the students is assigned a patient and the other a medical personnel (or other profession).  The students then attempt to communicate in their prospective languages.  This activity is a fun and interesting lesson as the students must be able to identify the needs… >>>