Now it’s time to play You’re Not Saying that Right! The game show where . . . wait, what? Have you ever strayed outside your language comfort zone only to end up using the “wrong” word? You say swimming pool, and the person you’re talking to just frowns? “We don’t […]
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Historic Teaching Methods — Part Three
What’s the best way to teach or learn a language? In part one of this series about historic Spanish teaching and learning methods, we explored what phonographs, or modern technologies, have to do with language-learning classrooms. In the second part, we explored the “natural” or “Pestalozzian” method, which serves as […]
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What’s the best way to teach or learn a language? In part one of this series about historic Spanish teaching and learning methods, we explored what phonographs, or modern technologies, have to do with language-learning classrooms. In the second part of this series, we will explore the “natural” or “Pestalozzian” […]
Read MoreHistoric Language Teaching Methods – Part One
What’s the best way to learn a language? Ask any language teacher, and odds are the answer will be immersion. But, what do teachers and students do when full immersion isn’t possible? If students are resistant to the target language? When singing songs in Spanish is “too babyish” or “silly?” […]
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