Language Acquisition

In this video, we'll be discussing how to balance L1 and L2 in the language classroom.

In this video, I’ll be exploring the importance of repetition in teaching a language with comprehensible input. As language teachers, we all know the struggle of trying to make new concepts stick in our students' brains.

I know that instinct and knowledge aren't the scientific terms for these two aspects of the brain. Bill VanPatten calls them implicit and explicit, but I think those terms, though scientifically correct, muddle the waters a bit and aren't as clear.

After having read the posts on the list about the Pimsleur Method, I decided to retry this methodology for learning a language. I had tried the Pimsleur tapes for Spanish and German when I was young, but never really followed through.