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Accommodating
students means, in practice, adjusting the tasks to the students, providing
enough variety in materials and activities so that different students will
find, often if not always, contexts that match their particular style. For
instance, if we know that for Asian learners group solidarity is important,
we will try to emphasize group work in which the group, rather than the
individual, is at the core of the activity. If we find that Hispanic learners
profit more from concepts presented globally rather than analytically, we
will try to ensure that each new topic is contextualized so that they get the
whole picture first. If we become aware that Islamic students value oral
repetition, we will ensure that, especially at the start, this approach is
included in some way or other in what we do in the classroom.
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