The Three Ingredients To Easily Speak Any Language: The Lazy-Fun Approach

Why are most people struggling to learn a foreign language while others can easily speak multiple languages? Do you really need to be a genius to be a polyglot? Does talent have anything to do with language learning?
There are a lot of misconceptions which lead to faulty approaches when it comes to learning and teaching foreign languages. The three Ingredients to easily speak any language will shift your paradigm and get you on track.

Designing Language Teaching Tasks

This book is about designing, not whole books, but one of their constituent parts - tasks or activities . for use on the foreign language classroom.

Cognitive and Metacognitive Listening Strategies Training for University Non-English Majors

In this research study, the researcher designs and implements a language learning strategy-training program that focused on the development of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies to promote listening comprehension ability among second year non-English majors. Learners were studying English as a foreign language (EFL) at a university language center.

Media is now an integral constituent of any educational context. In particular, computer and internet media can have significant bearing on foreign language learning processes and outcomes. Such highly interactive and adaptable media can enable reflective, productive and communicative activities and have much potential for language learning. The 16 papers in this book examine a range of media in use in foreign language education. The papers examine theoretical and pedagogical issues, empirical research findings, and innovative use of media in curricular practice, including students' evaluations of these projects.

This volume addresses critical challenges and issues facing foreign language departments in colleges and universities across the U.S. It presents the insights of individuals who have built or are in the process of building foreign language curricula during a major transition period in postsecondary institutions.