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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
An attempt to turn around the traditional structure of language education. One does not start learning a language with the written text, the text of a lecture and the optical perception of letters through the eye, but rather by hearing words through the ear.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Preface
As a French teacher, I noticed that students actively learn how to read a text, albeit at different speeds, and manage to speak the text out loud, albeit with different quality of pronunciation. They also manage to properly understand the text and translate it into English. Moreover, they also demonstrate their capacity to take down dictations in the foreign language, some with fewer errors and some with more. As soon as one attempts to have a conversation with them in the foreign language, they draw a blank. They don’t have the proper vocabulary to formulate an answer, and don’t know how to construct complete sentences.
The Interrogative Repertoire
When I studied interrogative pronouns with students of Year 11, who are completing the basic curriculum, and wanted to construct sentences such as:
Who did you see?
Who gave you that?
Who do you know?
Who is this?
What is that?
What did you give him?
I noticed that even the gifted students had difficulties differentiating between the accusative and nominative clauses.
Nursery School
At the same time, my young granddaughter was visiting us for a couple of days. A five-year-old. My daughter moved to France with her, to a town near Grenoble, when she was just three years old. She visited the nursery school there. Even though my daughter continued to speak German with her, she still adopted the language she spoke with her peers in nursery school. She didn’t want to speak German, even though she did understand it. I was forced to speak French with her. I was quite happy to, above all because it allowed me to make some very interesting observations. The five-year-old flawlessly mastered all questions with interrogative pronouns, which I was trying so hard to achieve with my 16-year-olds – to no avail.
Fundamental Consideration
One cannot learn a language with the greatest efficiency by first learning individual words, combining these into sentences using very basic rules of grammar, and then continuously increasing the difficulty and continuously expanding one’s vocabulary.
Quite the contrary: Speaking, or rather speaking by oneself, should be at the very beginning of learning a language, instead of the end.
The First Sentences
The audibly perceived and spoken sentence comes at the beginning, and not the word or the written text.
What is this?
What is your name?
Where do you live?
Who are your parents?
