Learn the language in context, use it for specific purposes and learn through face-to-face interaction. These three approaches to language learning are somewhat obvious, but have been described in various ways by researchers coming from all sorts of different perspectives on SLA. You need to see language as a system and a social practice which means that language is not something you can just focus on being able to do with people. It's an abstract set of information that we have to learn"
Reading an article by Gavin Lamb (PhD) about the conclusions of academic studies into language learning, and adding my own reflections and comments. What does research tell us about the best way to learn a language? What are the most important things to consider? What are the best methods? The article boils it all down to three main points.
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