Correct Response: A. Active learning refers to classroom activities in which students engage with content or practice skills in meaningful, and often interactive, contexts. In A, the children are taking the initiative in a high-interest activity, while the teacher encourages them to attend to and produce oral English by narrating and asking questions about the activity. Oral language and vocabulary development are integrated naturally into the activity because children are motivated to find ways of communicating with one another within the authentic context of dramatic play. B encourages the children to produce language and make meaningful connections to their first languages but remains on the surface level of labeling and memorization rather than engagement in communication for authentic purposes. Both C and D are incorrect because they place the English learners in relatively passive roles, which is likely to decrease their motivation for retaining the language to which they are exposed.
