Teaching Spanish Idiomatic Expressions in the Classroom
Wouldn’t it be a drag to never move beyond being a speaker of textbook Spanish? Encourage spontaneity and speed by using this list and some of …
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Teaching the Pronunciation of Spanish Consonants, with Examples
This lesson plan offers teachers over two dozen sentences with observations about the pronunciation of Spanish consonants. It also offers some …
Continue ReadingShould You Use a Student's First Language for Learning? The Pros and Cons
As a teacher of a second language, it is tempting to use the learner’s first language for learning once in a while. If you speak it, and it …
Continue ReadingLearn to Use Interrogative words in Spanish
This lesson is a primer for beginners in Spanish, an admonition with examples and an encouragement to learn these powerful words as separate …
Continue ReadingWhat Gender & Number Agreement in Spanish is and How it Works
This lesson reviews the nature of nouns, then proceeds contrastively and with examples, to show how to learn the gender of nouns, how to recognize …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Subject-Verb Agreement in Spanish
If you’re a teacher, you’ve written admonitions about this on many a quiz. If you’re a student of Spanish, you may have wondered …
Continue ReadingOvercoming Foreign Accents in the Process of Second Language Learning
This article addresses the need to focus on correct pronunciation in the foreign language classroom in order to minimize “foreign accents” …
Continue ReadingCan America's Emphasis on Binary Thinking Restrict the Ability to Learn Multiple Languages?
Did you ever wonder why people in other countries outside the United States often know three, four or even five languages? Ever wonder why Americans …
Continue ReadingCan Fluency in a 2nd Language Be Measured?
It can be impressive when you hear that a person is fluent in a foreign language. It can be just as disappointing to find out that they aren’t …
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