Nonlinguistic learning

Since many of my students claim to be kinesthetic learners, then they seem to need to learn by doing something with the new material. Marzano explicitly states that students learn by doing things like creating graphic organizers. I typically encourage my students to organize their notes in this way since just drawing the graphic organizer and then filling it in also helps the visual learners. I am not sure how to use physical movement in a foreign language class, but I have used sign language when teaching some of the new vocabulary and the students can then associate the sign with the Spanish word. I think that some of the author's techniques are better suited for a science class but understand that with various learners, the imagination may play a significant role in assisting them to remember new learning.