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| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5577 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 1 of 5 08 July 2010 at 9:27am | IP Logged |
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I am interested in 'different' textbooks and language-learning methods, starting in new ways (whichever). Which do you consider different - and interestingly different?
(I prefer to stick to publications, although hints at other media are welcome as well) In fact I wonder if our textbooks start with the right/ most important speech acts and if they exploit them enough... I think they are often too vocabulary-based, and especially context-based. Edited by JanKG on 08 July 2010 at 9:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6280 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 5 08 July 2010 at 9:40am | IP Logged |
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Have a look at "Lingua Latina"
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| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5577 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 3 of 5 08 July 2010 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, this is refreshingly different from what we have got used to, but er...
Isn't it too old as a concept? I mean: only stories, few dialogues, no focus on spoken language? But it is different, to say the least. Thanks! (I do hope for something worthwhile imitating...) While looking for speech-act applications in LL, I came across Content-Based Language Teaching with Technology (CoBaLTT) , which I liked:http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/lessonplans/search.ht ml . But it is not for beginners of course. However, I like the CoBa-starting point... Edited by JanKG on 08 July 2010 at 10:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6280 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 5 08 July 2010 at 12:05pm | IP Logged |
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Well, it's Latin, so the goal is to enable people to read literature, not to have
conversations. I think the method is uniquely suitable for Latin, though I'd love to read a similar book for a living language as well, as supplementary material to a conversation-based course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5577 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish | Message 5 of 5 08 July 2010 at 6:40pm | IP Logged |
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I see your point now. I must still have a closer look at the method itself. Thanks !
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