Methodology and Psychology   Teaching a FL means forming new and appropriate habits and skills and the utilizing previously acquired ones in four main types of activity: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Language study is essentially a habit-forming process, so we must learn to form habits. At present we have much material in the field […]

Demands on the teacher A language teacher must be aware that this work is very demanding, both intellectually and physically. Vital qualities are: 1. energy; 2. a desire to teach; 3. willingness to prepare materials such as visual aids and hand-outs; 4. an ability to transfer his knowledge interestingly and imaginatively. Teaching Structure. 1. Get […]

Designer methods of the Spirited 70’s – English Methodology The decade of the 70’s in the previous century was historically significant on two counts: 1) perhaps more than another decades research of second language learning and teaching grew from offshoot of linguistics to a discipline in its own right. As more and more scholars specialized […]

Francois Gouin Series Methods Francois Gouin (German teacher of Latin) traveled to Germany to learn German but he had to go through a certain painful set of experiences to drive his insights into the learning of FL. Having decided in his mid-aged life to learn German he took his residence there for a year. But […]