3638. Toward an Effective Way of Teaching a Second or Foreign Language
Are you a teacher yourself? I mean, a second or foreign language teacher? I’m going to tell you something today which hopefully may help you with your lessons. Let’s see to it. It’s common to say that we language teachers have to have our students practice the language they’re learning and we should not confine our teaching to teaching language facts. And that’s okay. We should not confine our teaching to grammar and little else. Yep, that’s right. However, let us not think we cannot teach those grammar facts, like for example verbal tenses or the use of the comparative of irregular adjectives. Thus, if I’m teaching a bit of grammar or lexis, I don’t have to think I’m doing something wrong. Come on, as well you have to give your dear students language facts and grammar and the like, because those students do need those facts… to be able to precisely communicate in the target language. And above all if they are adults or even teens. They do need the l...