10 Practical Tips For Effective Language Learning

17 October, 2019

Everyone learning a language has ‘the dream’ of fluency. However, most of the time, learners are not fully equipped for reaching this goal. They often have unrealistic expectations and assume that after a three-month course they will get what they want. Unfortunately, this is not the...

Benefits Of Living In A Multicultural Setting

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

10 October, 2019

Migration is a worldwide phenomenon. People leave in a “melting pot” with different socio-economic background, education and languages spoken. It is common nowadays to see children being raised in a multilingual home where the languages are different from the ones spoken in the wider...

Effect Of Implicit And Explicit Language Training On Grammar

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

03 October, 2019

Most people learn a second language through explicit instruction, and others do through implicit exposure to the language. Scientists have wondered if these two different types of learning trigger diverse neurological pathways allowing the learner to process grammar. Let’s clarify the...

How Immersion Helps Learning A Language Faster

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

26 September, 2019

Learning a new language provides a range of benefits, no matter your age, hence the increasing amount of people learning a foreign language. Language immersion programs are also on the rise because it’s one of the best ways to learn a new language. It is claimed that immersion can ease the...

Is There Truly A Gender Difference In Reading Strategy?

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

19 September, 2019

A great amount of research has taken place trying to answer the question whether men's and women's approach to language learning is different, and more importantly, whether it causes one gender advantage upon the other. The debate about whether women are better at language learning has...

ESL Speakers Are Victims Of Unconscious Bias

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

12 September, 2019

The English language is a common means of communication for speakers of different first languages. With the world turned into an interconnected global system, there is a need for a mutual language. English has fulfilled this need by becoming the global lingua franca of the 21st century. It is...

What Is Task-Based Language Teaching?

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

05 September, 2019

Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) also known as task-based instruction (TBI), is an educational framework of teaching foreign languages. It is claimed that it is a model that can help learner acquire a second language effectively. TBLT was born when teachers realised that the...

Are Your Limiting Beliefs Preventing Your Language Learning?

29 August, 2019

Success in all areas of our lives is what everybody wishes for, and most of the time we do not realise the impact that our beliefs can have on the results we get. Unfortunately, language learning is not the exception. What we believe to be true about language learning can even prevent us from...

Positive Effect Of Reading On Second Language Acquisition

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

23 August, 2019

Reading is the process of building meaning by interacting with a text; and a strategy " is a plan selected deliberately by the reader to accomplish a particular goal". [ Paris, Lipson & Wixon, 1983] When learning a language, reading is an important skill that will help the learner memorise...

How This Amazing Discovery Can Change Language Learning

Géralde Vincent-Bancroft

15 August, 2019

A study published in the Cognitive Science might be at the forefront of future changes in the way languages are taught around the world. The study by Dartmouth College was carried out in a bid to understanding the factors that affect the learning process and how the methods of teaching can...

STRATEGIES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Better ways for busy professionals to learn a language

10 Practical Tips For Effective Language Learning

Benefits Of Living In A Multicultural Setting

Effect Of Implicit And Explicit Language Training On Grammar

How Immersion Helps Learning A Language Faster

Is There Truly A Gender Difference In Reading Strategy?

ESL Speakers Are Victims Of Unconscious Bias

What Is Task-Based Language Teaching?

Are Your Limiting Beliefs Preventing Your Language Learning?

Positive Effect Of Reading On Second Language Acquisition

How This Amazing Discovery Can Change Language Learning

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