Chapter 10 Transfer of learning 10.1 What is transfer of learning consider the two students: Henry is bilingual: He speaks both English and Spanish fluently. He begins a French course in high school and immediately recognizes many similarities between French and spanish.“Aha;” he thinks,“m knowledge of Spanish will help me learn French Teds mathematics class has been working with decimals for several weeks. his teacher asked. which number is larger, 4.4 or 4.14? Ted recalls something that he knows about whole numbers: Number with three digits are larger than numbers with only two digits. The larger number is 4.14, he concludesChapter 10 Transfer of learning • 10.1 What is transfer of learning? • consider the two students: • Henry is bilingual:He speaks both English and Spanish fluently.He begins a French course in high school and immediately recognizes many similarities between French and Spanish. “Aha,”he thinks, “my knowledge of Spanish will help me learn French”. • Ted’s mathematics class has been working with decimals for several weeks. His teacher asked, “which number is larger, 4.4 or 4.14?” Ted recalls something that he knows about whole numbers: Number with three digits are larger than numbers with only two digits. “The larger number is 4.14”, he concludes