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Because they will grow up and use their awesome skills in the real world with and collaborate with diverse people.

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The more they speak the better they can communicate with others.

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they need space to practice it! and the opportunity to collaborate/discuss respectively!

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They need to practice the language if they are to become proficient in that language

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When they are speaking, they are learning! They need to hear the ideas of others. They need to also have those conversation skills that they use as adults

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Students need practice with academic language if they are to become proficient in that language."

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Students will need to engage in a variety of conversations with a variety of people in the real/adult world.  If they cannot hold a conversation or discussion, they will have great difficulty being successful in most settings as adults.

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practice develops skills. And conversation skills are crucial in society

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They need to be able to become proficient/ fluent in the academic language.

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This is preparing them for the real world.

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To constantly build open their vocabulary and reinforce vocabulary they already know.

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Builds collaboration

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Students must consistently engage in academic discussions to become thinkers in "science, history, mathematics, art, literature, and technical subjects."

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Students should be consistently engaged in academic discussion because we cannot expect them to master it or succeed in a workplace using it if we do not give them time to practice it.

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Students need to be interact with all types of people. They need people skills....soft skills.

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Anything consistently practiced will become an established skill, making school and later work more enjoyable, more productive, and more smoothly run.

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Students will need communication skills in the real-world. They need time/ strategies to help them get better at it.

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So they can learn to maintain conversations and build on ideas as well as to be able to express their ideas clearly.

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"the ones doing the talking are the ones doing the learning"

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They need to be able to discuss and explain ideas to a variety of people, not just peers, because they will eventually have to do this in the workplace or in their various fields of study.