I saved this blog post to my favorites because it really struck home with me. The article relays the fundamentals in language training and how to make learning a language either boring or exciting (of course, having the right instructor is important too). It must have been something in my subconscious, but now that we are organizing our meet groups for different languages, this article is especially relevant.
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Article by avangend on HubPages
Learning a foreign language is a concept that entralls, and a practice that bores. And why should it not be? When the vast, unbounded creativity of communication is reduced to the mathematical tedium of verb tenses and grammatical structures, the luster of language of dulled. What is the appeal of something that teaches one how to memorize rather than to learn, to think, to create, to use? Education, it seems, is not always the desired outcome of schooling. As Mark Twain puts it, “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” Thus, I think it is now time – and probably overdue - to unlearn our prior, ineffective methods of foreign language “education,” and seek something more beneficial.
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Read on...
Article by avangend on HubPages
Learning a foreign language is a concept that entralls, and a practice that bores. And why should it not be? When the vast, unbounded creativity of communication is reduced to the mathematical tedium of verb tenses and grammatical structures, the luster of language of dulled. What is the appeal of something that teaches one how to memorize rather than to learn, to think, to create, to use? Education, it seems, is not always the desired outcome of schooling. As Mark Twain puts it, “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” Thus, I think it is now time – and probably overdue - to unlearn our prior, ineffective methods of foreign language “education,” and seek something more beneficial.
click here for the rest of the article...
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