I have to throw out some props for the people whose work I believe makes the theoretical field of SLA something we can use to make ourselves better teachers and learners. Obviously I’m a Krashenite. Not all the way. I couldn’t care less what he has to say about bird languages or what the aliens […]
To understand why I do what I do, you first need to hear the assumptions I’m working from, I think. 1) Motivation is one of the top (if not the number one) factors in success in language acquisition. 2) I’ve never seen a textbook that U.S. high school students found motivating. 3) Not all students […]
I put myself through grad school working with a group of graduate electrical engineers. Their supervisor spent thousands of dollars paying 100% of my tuition and a stipend for me to live off of, and in exchange, I helped them communicate their research. After spending 4 years in undergraduate engineering classes, they’d entered their master’s […]