It may be Farsi, the great Spanish, or the nasal French. It can be the rolling R’s of Russia; whatever you fancy to speak during the university days are now becoming a need, more than a three unit elective course to fill out the college curriculum. That is become the world has become borderless. Come to think of it; the Philippines’ next door neighbor is the newest super power who happens to be a great IT hub: India. Why is that? They both are the most outsourced countries in the world.Why not learn Hindu then? You can if you want; [...]
Teaching Processes in Language Learning
by adminThe information-processing learning theory absorbed the useful achievements from both behaviorism and traditional cognitive theory, and in a sense, it is a combination of the two. It admits association, but not the association between “stimulus and response”, instead, it is the association between psychological new schemata. It tries to describe every concrete step of the presumed mental operation through computer simulation, which is much more precise than that of traditional cognitive theory. On the other hand, it adopted the experimental attitude, which is emphasized by the behaviorist; i.e. it not only hypothesizes the mental processes, but also tests them, through [...]
Language Learning – English Grammar: Why You Need It And How It Helps You To Learn Other Languages
by adminAlthough English is not exactly the same as any other language, a basic grasp of English grammar will make it much easier to learn a foreign language. Like any new study, there is a lot to learn when you start a new language, but if you already have some knowledge to which you can connect new material you have an advantage. This is one reason why people who are competent in two languages often add more and more as they go through life, to the amazement of those who have never really mastered any language other than English. Language learning [...]
