Adult students: why won’t they learn?
7 hypotheses that may account for some adult students’ perplexing lack of progress in their language learning. This post offers no solutions, of course. Only reflections and further questions.
Category «VIDEO ACTIVITIES»
Passive voice fun
Even though it’s terribly difficult to devise practice and production (i.e., output) activities that somehow naturally “trap” a certain structure, creating language presentation tasks (whether you want to call them noticing, consciousness raising or whatever) that illustrate a certain language area is, thank God, less of a daunting task.
The hazy line between grammar & lexis (1)
This post is a short anecdotal account of two lessons I taught in 2002. Why on earth, you must be wondering, would I have any sort of recollection of two lessons I taught nearly ten years ago. It so happens that those two lessons were very significant because they helped me to finally make sense …
Gem of a book
December’s intuition post took me on a long and unintended trip down my own language-learning memory lane and brought back all sorts of recollections of the processes I went through as a language learner. Here’s a thought that’s been nagging at me over the past month: How do I know the English I know today? …