Selecting a Text
Selecting a Text: This chapter will use the term text to identify a written manuscript. A newspaper in your target language is usually an excellent source for a study text. …
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Do You Need Both Beginning and Advanced?
Do You Need Both Beginning and Advanced? Your perceived needs as you begin studying your target language will significantly influence how you answer this chapter’s title question. If you decide…
Grammar and Writing in Spoken Language Study
Grammar and Writing in Spoken Language Study: Personal experience about Grammar and Writing: I had the great advantage of growing up in a home in which grammatically correct English was…
Focusing on the Target Language
Focusing on the Target Language: It would be impossible to say that any spoken language has a neatly defined vocabulary and syntax, or that it can be fully taught through…
The Proprioceptive Sense in Language Learning
The Proprioceptive Sense in Language Learning: In order to teach adult students to speak a second language fluently, it is necessary to understand how the human mind produces speech before…
Learning Spoken Language for Rules
Learning Spoken Language for Rules There are four simple rules to follow when learning a second language: To learn to speak the language correctly, you must speak it aloud: It…
The Role of Communication
The Role of Communication; I suggest that you will acquire language best when you study in such a way that you 1) listen to large amounts of comprehensible input, 2)…