Questions about methods that are used to help teach a target language to other people.
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What are the main foreign language teaching methods?
Recently I have been wondering what methods and techniques for learning and teaching foreign languages exist. My quest is to re-evaluate my views on foreign language acquisition, and maybe make some changes to my own approach.
To keep this question…
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Are there any L2-acquisition pedagogies based on the structure of L1-learning?
The L2 classes I've experienced seem to be pragmatically focused on giving the student a combination of useful phrases, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and even contextual/cultural information. Has anyone developed one that progresses as close…
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Is it acceptable to use one's mother tongue in teaching English?
In our country, we are learning English as a foreign language, not as a second language. We teach English by using our mother tongue in some situations. Is it acceptable?
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Combining grammar-translation method and direct method to teach English
Should we use two or three methods at the same time to teach English? For example: Grammar translation method, Direct method, etc. More specifically, is it acceptable to combine the grammar-translation method and a direct method for teaching…
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Details of Pair-teaching system with untrained teachers
I am trying to find details of a teaching system which I believe comes from one of the universities in Quebec, for teaching English and French.
It's an exchange technique: the students are organised into pairs, each learning the native language of…
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Where (outside the Rassias Center) can one learn the Rassias method of language teaching?
The Rassias method is a language teaching method named after John Rassias, who used it at Dartmouth College (in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States). The Rassias Center there still uses the method. According to the description by the…
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What are some tactics to incentivising my friend to learn my native language?
My bestfriend doesn't like learning languages because, well, a lot of it doesn't make sense to her. I've been occasionally sneaking in little mini-lessons to subtly teach her, but she doesn't quite see a reason to learn, on top of the fact that she…
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Which methodology is inspired by Chomsky's innatist theory?
I know that the Drilling/Audiolongual method was inspired by the Behaviorist theory.
I also know that communicative approach was inspired by Piaget's social-interactionist theory.
Which methodology is inspired by Chomsky/Krashen's innatist theory?
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Is indirect negative evidence better than direct negative evidence?
It is a tendency among teachers to correct students' mistakes directly.
For example, when a student says, My father goed to the office, the teacher blames the student.
Since it is a sign of learning and the student has learnt to use the morpheme…
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