Task Based Language Teaching and Learning

Although TBLT is a wonderful approach to second language acquisition there are times when students need to focus on forms to better get an understanding of a language area or skill. One such time I think is learning to read in another language. English is notorious for being hard to read as there are 26 [...]

When I first started studying Japanese, in Japanese, I was mighty confused. Nothing was familiar – the scripts, the sounds the grammar were all totally alien to my Western mind, so i got a good introduction to how Japanese beginners feel when they encounter English. I was taught in a very traditional Japanese way – [...]