How do students best learn a foreign language?
- by ‘doing’
- talking to natives
- solving real problems (traffic ticket)
- experiencing culture
- TPR (Total Physical Response) – (opening the door, putting something on the shelf)
- ‘real-world’ activities (going shopping, ordering in a restaurant)
- mingling
- thinking in the foreign language
- speaking (inside and outside the classroom)
- listening (including tapes, ‘real’ speech, TV, radio, music videos)
- reading (books, blogs, magazines, newspapers, stories with morals)
- writing (class assignments, letters, journals, reports)
- learning vocabulary (using words in sentences, using dictionary, watching TV with closed captions, reading, asking the meaning of words)
- practice (including homework)
- learning grammar
- grammar/idiom/vocabulary games
- repetition
- class interaction (pair work, group work)
- preparing a learning plan