Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsStephen Krashen presented his Theory of Second Language Acquisition back in the 1980′s. It has been a leading influencer in thinking about language learning ever since and has had a big impact on my thinking of how we learn language and thus, how I can help others learn language for themselves. The theory itself has…
Monthly Archives: May 2011
4 Considerations for Choosing a Great Book for Language Learning
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsReading is an important part of an effective language learning program. As everyday language learners, it is essential that you find high quality reading material so that you can receive the maximum benefit from the time you invest. Identifying high quality material is often a challenge though and today I want to offer four considerations…
Am I Fluent in Turkish? Who cares!
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsFluency. It is a concept that is difficult to wrap our heads around and one that is almost impossible to quantify. Because of this, I think the idea of fluency is not worth a whole lot for language learners. It’s neat to say that I am fluent in Turkish or Spanish and it feels great…
Language Learning Tip: Warm Up!
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsWe have all seen it happen. We are watching the big game or the 100 meter dash at the Olympics. An athlete is running at full speed and suddenly it happens. They pull up hobbling, grabbing the back of their leg. If it’s bad enough, they fall to the ground writhing in pain. They have…
Destiny + Experience = Powerful Language Learning
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI have recently been thinking about the challenge of learning a language while in your home country. I can remember back to my time spent learning both German and Spanish while living in the states. It was often really tough. I have now had the priviledge of living in Turkey while learning Turkish and I…
Book Club: Part 1
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI think I have decided to just call this series of discussions about the two books, The Whole World Guide to Language Learning and How to Be a Successful Language Learner by a shortened name – Book Club. Their names are way too long to type every time and it is what I want the…
The Missing Video
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsHere is the Youtube video I discussed in the previous post. It was supposed to be embedded, but did not show up. Still learning how to work this machine called WordPress. Sorry for the extra update. Also, on my computer, the video plays a little funny with the words not matching the mouth. A bit…
Language Learning Tip: Follow the Leader Journaling
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI posted this video on the EDLL Youtube channel a few days ago, but I wanted to share it here as well and get a little feedback. I am a big proponent of journaling as part of an over all program of language learning. Read more here and here. A client of mine recently shared a…
New Books, New Resources, New Ideas
Tweetgovernment,politics news,politics news,politicsI was very excited to get two books from the states this last week that I look forward to reading and sharing with you, the reader of The Everyday Language Learner. Both are of course about learning language and both are very much in line with what I write about here. The first is The…
