Myths about Second Language Acquisition: Grammar-Translation Is Not Dead
Foreign-language teachers have probably heard that the “grammar-translation” method is dead, out of style; yet the last two generations of …
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Teaching English-Speaking Students a Second Language
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How to Teach Spanish Reflexive Object Pronouns
Do your beginning Spanish students get confused about reflexive object pronouns and try to use them as subjects? That is, do you hear them say …
Continue ReadingTeaching Spanish Double Object Pronouns
Does it seem that as soon as most students begin to understand how to use direct object pronouns and understand indirect and reflexive object …
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How to Teach the Spanish Superlative
After students have learned to describe and compare equal or unequal things, they are ready to learn how to say something is the best or worst, the …
Continue ReadingSpanish Lesson Plan: How to Introduce Indirect Object Pronouns
After learning or being exposed to direct object pronouns, most students are soon exposed to indirect object pronouns. Their first difficulty is …
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Spanish Color Song and Game to Teach Students Color Words in Spanish
American Kindergarteners can learn to read color words in Spanish as well as in English. Here you will find the colors (los colores) song, and a …
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Teach Children Italian: Names for Body Parts
This lesson will consist of teaching children parts of the body in the Italian language. Try these fun activities, worksheets, index cards, and audio …
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Teaching Unequal Comparisons in Spanish
The grammatical and lexical tools of this lesson will enable students of Spanish to verbalize their observations about the world in ways that parallel …
Continue ReadingThe Difference Between the Imperfect Indicative and the Conditional in Spanish
Somewhere in the latter part of the first year of study, students begin to get “morphological” cobwebs in their brain. Strange hybrid …
Continue ReadingLearning Italian: Describing Family Members
In this lesson we will look at different ways to teach children the names of the family members in Italian. Children will listen to audio samples as …
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