http://anthropology.net/2008/04/10/learning-style-preferences-prove-irrelevant-in-l2-vocabulary-acquisition/ Beyond bones & stones Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://anthropology.net/2008/04/10/learning-style-preferences-prove-irrelevant-in-l2-vocabulary-acquisition/#comment-10411 Luis and Joan Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:49:14 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=782#comment-10411 I find this fascinating and consistent with what my husband says. He is from Peru and teaches Spanish here in Minnesota. He teaches out of our home so that he can use 'real life' to help students learn and retain information. His philosophy is to teach Spanish "in context" because that is exactly how we learn our mother tongue as children. Not just present tense and a bunch of nouns but everything and every tense as the need presents itself to use it. I think it works pretty well by the results he gets. He had me fluent in just a little over a year from nothing and many of his other students are at about the same pace. Your piece came to my attention through my WordPress blog that let´s me know who else is out there talking about Spanish. Only if you are curious, our website page that highlights his online teaching method centered in "context" is http://www.rojasspanish.com/video.htm Thanks for this post, very interesting. - Joan Rojas I find this fascinating and consistent with what my husband says. He is from Peru and teaches Spanish here in Minnesota. He teaches out of our home so that he can use ‘real life’ to help students learn and retain information. His philosophy is to teach Spanish “in context” because that is exactly how we learn our mother tongue as children. Not just present tense and a bunch of nouns but everything and every tense as the need presents itself to use it. I think it works pretty well by the results he gets. He had me fluent in just a little over a year from nothing and many of his other students are at about the same pace. Your piece came to my attention through my WordPress blog that let´s me know who else is out there talking about Spanish. Only if you are curious, our website page that highlights his online teaching method centered in “context” is http://www.rojasspanish.com/video.htm Thanks for this post, very interesting. – Joan Rojas

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