Verbs for ESL Students: What Are the Form and Types of Phrasal Verbs in English?
Phrasal verbs are a verb form unique to Germanic languages like English that are formed by a verb and one or more prepositions. English phrasal verbs …
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Digital Technology Applications Can Improve Your Language Learning and Teaching
There is a variety of language learning software, foreign languages learning websites, language CDs, language tapes, and methods to learn languages, …
Continue ReadingAcademic Careers in Foreign Languages
Interested in becoming a professor of a foreign language – a university professor? This article describes the process, the steps along the way, …
Continue ReadingDialogues in Foreign-Language Classes
Even beginners should be encouraged to write and perform original dialogues in the foreign language they are studying. Learn how to get a lot of …
Continue ReadingGeography: Group Project for Intermediate Foreign Language Students
Get intermediate foreign-language students doing research to find data and present it! This brief series will use intermediate Spanish as an example, …
Continue ReadingIdeas for an Oral Presentation for a Foreign Language Class on the History of a Country
The second student of the group of four assigned to present a case study of a country covers history. He or she follows the student who has covered …
Continue ReadingLesson for Oral Presentations of Culture in Foreign Language Class
This article is the last of four in a series about preparing oral presentations about countries by doing research with material written in the target …
Continue ReadingTranslation is Like Alchemy: An Explanation for Monolinguals
Of the many models of what it’s like to translate, alchemy has always appealed to me. This model is proposed by a famous literary translator …
Continue ReadingWhat Makes One Text Harder or Easier to Translate than Another? A Consideration of 'The Wheel of Difficulty'
This article is inspired by another translation analogy, proposed originally by Dr. Margaret S. Peden, which explains why some texts are more …
Continue ReadingMyths about Second Language Acquisition: Grammar-Translation Is Not Dead
Foreign-language teachers have probably heard that the “grammar-translation” method is dead, out of style; yet the last two generations of …
Continue ReadingHow to Run Conversation Class in a Foreign Language
Wouldn’t it be great if all language professors had ideal sized classes? They’d be fewer in number than the 20, 25 or even 30 or more …
Continue ReadingRelections of a Spanish Language Teacher
Teaching a language is so much more than just the mechanics. My personal challenge is to instill in my students a sense of the value of learning a …
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