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 [...]
Learning a new language is not an easy task, especially when it comes to learning Chinese. But, if you have the motivation to do it, it is definitely possible. Chinese is known as the most spoken language in the whole world, with nearly 1.2 billion people speaking it as their first language, [...]
Something we occasionally see in new teachers here at York is the misunderstanding that great teaching is all about being at the centre of the class. Teachers fresh out of a TEFL course standing at the front of the classroom, booming instructions left, right and centre, loudly drilling [...]
