Author Archives: Erlinda Teisinger

Language learning strategies encourage overall self-direction for learners…Self-direction is essential to the active development of ability in a new language. Continue reading →

Research has shown that teachers who focus students’ attention on linguistic form during communicative interactions are more effective than those who never focus on form or who do so in decontextualized grammar lessons. Continue reading →

The teacher who really teaches, that is, who really works with contents within the context of methodological exactitude, will deny as false the hypocritical formula, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’ Whoever is engaged in ‘right thinking’ knows only too well that words not given body (made flesh) have little or no value. Right thinking is right doing. Continue reading →

Simple listening tasks … can cater to the ‘silent period,’ which characterizes the early stages of acquisition for some learners.
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