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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4925 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish^C2, Italian^C2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe	Message 1 of 2 08 June 2014 at 3:49am \| IP Logged
	This probably isn't anything new for HTLALers, but thought it might be interesting for some, regardless. It's a short article (with audio) from NPR talking about the Mormon Church's process for foreign language teaching at their boot camps. mormon-missionaries">Mormon Missionary Language Boot Camp Edit: Here's the raw URL in case the link doesn't work properly (it isn't displaying correctly, but should work) - http://www.npr.org/2014/06/07/319805068/lessons-from-the-lan guage-boot-camp-for- mormon-missionaries R. == Edited by hrhenry on 08 June 2014 at 3:53am 7 persons have voted this message useful
Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4704 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German	Message 2 of 2 11 June 2014 at 2:34pm \| IP Logged
	It's a bit funny that the idea of using "context-based teaching" is considered to be a "novel approach". The Assimil method could be considered a context based approach. Even if you take their specific approach, I have seen a Hindi course for missionaries written in the early 60s which used a very similar approach to the Mormon method. Each chapter was centered around a Bible story, and taught the students to practice hearing and answering common questions about the story. This was still mixed in with standard vocab/grammar methods, but the grammar and vocab was all learned with reference to the story. It struck me that the approach was better than most current textbooks. 1 person has voted this message useful

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