54 ¦ Implicit and explicit knowledge in the language classroom
The Motivated Classroom
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Language Acquisition - I Loved That Colt
The language acquisition world agrees on this, they say that to teach these isolated grammar structures first for communication later is to essentially put the cart before the horse. What we really need to have is a balance between form and meaning. The students don't understand what i'm talking about or the things that we're saying, then we're not going to be learning anything. They're not having fun. Their competence is low. So that's really important, the meaning. But we can have little focuses on the farm now and again, in these popup grammar type things like, well a normally it ends in an o for masculine and an a for feminine. Or normally there's an s in the plural
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