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Bump! Imagine you would be working with this method in five years time, what do you think of it, and how can I improve it? And any scholars out there interested in writing on such things as the importance of motivation, frequency, the importance of words, context, etc., in language learning? It does...

I picked up my dictionary ...

It's 'pronoun', right?

You knew I weren't no teacher when you read that!

Thank you for your reply.

The first is more hostile, confrontational, the second is less formal. The first is something a teacher might say and a not too permissive mother, the second what a less formal teacher and more permissive mother would say, etc. I think.

Atreju, I said once before that I think that sandwich reading would teach vocabulary well and not cause long term problems because the tendency to use L1 grammar is probably quite easy to correct. However, since you advocate teaching no grammar at any stage I wonder if this will happen? I think I'l...

Heu, sorry for the overkill, but you asked for it, Fluffy!:D DONKEY 1 DOOM 1 DOOR 11 DOORS 6 DOORWAY 7 DOORWAYS 2 DOROTHY 236 DOROTHY'S 15 DOROTHY--YOU 1 DOROTHY?--SO 1 DOTTING 1 And Harry’s, Hagrid's, and Hermione’s occurrence in Harry Potter 1 & 3: H 7 HA 7 HAAA 2 HAAAAAA 1 HABIT 2 HABITS 1 HAD 15...

Ha! More response than I imagined, I read especially your response, Fluffy , with interest. Those of the others too, of course, but those were less dedicated to reading, nearing the bottom of the page. But perhaps I should just assume that you would/could/can teach these basic words thoroughly and i...

Heu... How do you like this for a theory: Statement: the productive knowledge of a language is always less than the passive knowledge of a language. Statement: as the productive knowledge of a language is always less than the passive knowledge, practising productive knowledge will never result in th...

I don't know what to say, José. Though... There are those that say you shouldn't let students do active things before they have a reasonable grounding in their passive skills; not let them talk and write on their very first day but after, say, six months. If you do that the chance's bigger they thin...

Using the language is learning the language… The faults in my last post, that I can see. Those faults I’ll less likely make now, now I’ve seen them myself. Le bave du crapaud atteint pas la blanche colombo [e] , parque [parce-que], parfois, on se sent un peu, je ne sais quo [quoi], on ne peut pas, c...

I was reading Philip Pullman’s ‘A la croisée des mondes’ yesterday evening, here’s an account of how I was thinking before I went to sleep: Le bave du crapaud atteint pas la blanche colombo, parque, parfois, on se sent un peu, je ne sais quo, on ne peut pas, come se dit ‘think’ ? penser en un train ...

Well, I, student, don't see the need of teaching grammar rules, be they short or long...

Just so you know!

[The above was written in complete ignorance of explicit English rules of grammar.]

Ugh!

8) You're welcome. But are you willing to acquint yourself with sandwich stories, like you said? :wink: It's easy to make such a story yourself, remember, if you know both languages. Though there are already some such stories available in Chinese, I gather. You'd only need a couple of weeks to a few...