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by Doug Bane - 2007-07-19
So I was on the train from Mexico City to Veracruz. The day before I had decided it was necessary to flee the city because the smog was terrible. I mean really bad...if you licked your lips it felt gr...
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by - 2007-07-19
If you have successfully completed at least The Learnables and The Pimsleur Spanish, Learning Spanish Like Crazy courses, you are ready for the formal study of Spanish (i.e., grammar). I know this is ...
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by - 2007-07-19
I've been thinking about this lady in San Miguel de Allende. I don't know her well. I've never met her, actually, but we have corresponded. She told me that she's tried learning Spanish. She's spent m...
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by - 2007-07-19
Going to the host country of the target language has always taken on a sort of mythical quality. It has been believed that you could not learn a foreign language unless you went to the country associa...
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by Douglas Bower - 2007-07-19
This method of second language instruction was a further development or evolution of The Direct Method. World War II rose up and slapped the U.S. government in its linguistically challenged face, waki...
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by Douglas Bower - 2007-07-19
Realizing that The Grammar Translation Method of second language instruction did not work to impart spoken proficiency in the target language, in the late 1800's, The Direct Method surfaced in languag...
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by Douglas Bower - 2007-07-20
The grammar translation method of second language acquisition is virtually the only method used in most language courses taught in classrooms all over the world. It is also known as The Classical Meth...
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by Douglas Bower - 2007-07-22
Dr. Krashen explains that this idea, The Monitor Hypothesis, shows how language learning (grammar) affects language acquisition. This is, according to Krashen, the useful outcome of learning grammar. ...
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by Douglas Bower - 2007-07-22
Dr. Stephen Krashen's foundational principle in his theory of Second Language Acquisition is called "The Acquisition-Learning hypothesis." In this idea, a distinction is made in that wonderfully excit...
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by Douglas Bower - 2007-07-22
In second language acquisition research conducted in 1974-75, 1980 and 1987, it was postulated that the acquisition of grammatical forms followed a natural and predictable order. How this happens is c...
