It would do a great deal of good if we started using the term "advisers" instead of "teachers" for those who try to help people to learn foreign languages. It would emphasize that what learners need is individual attention. It would also remind everyone that the responsibility for learning is basically the student’ s. What the students needs is somebody who can do two things: (① show her or him how to learn a foreign language; ② answer questions about the language. Those questions must be thought of by the students. (46) If students do not find questions to ask--whole streams of questions--it is a sign that either they are not really interested enough to do the thinking for themselves that is crucial, or they do not know how to.
The spirit that language learns need before anything else is curiosity. If they do not have that, they are wasting their time. (47) This means, in turn, that their guides do not need training in linguistic or ed
It would do a great deal of good if we started using the term "advisers" instead of "teachers" for those who try to help people to learn foreign languages. It would emphasize that what learners need is individual attention. It would also remind everyone that the responsibility for learning is basically the student’ s. What the students needs is somebody who can do two things: (① show her or him how to learn a foreign language; ② answer questions about the language. Those questions must be thought of by the students. (46) If students do not find questions to ask--whole streams of questions--it is a sign that either they are not really interested enough to do the thinking for themselves that is crucial, or they do not know how to.
The spirit that language learns need before anything else is curiosity. If they do not have that, they are wasting their time. (47) This means, in turn, that their guides do not need training in linguistic or ed
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