As I’m sure we all know, students seem to speak more naturally in class than they do work in a book or read a passage. I shall try and set out a few activities that focus more on the skills of reading and writing which hopefully can help new or even more [...]
Total Physical Response (TPR) (James Asher) This was developed by Asher who observed children learning their first language from their parents. He noticed some general patterns; children learnt language often as a result of listening which is reinforced by associating an action to a command or instruction that is heard and also [...]
How do people learn a language? This is a question that will impact any existing or prospective teacher whether they be teaching English or any other language. Over two articles I shall try to summarise some of the more impactful theories of Second Language Acquisition. Input Hypothesis (Stephen Krashen) Developed by Krashen [...]
