Todaywewanttotellyousomethingaboutlearningalanguage,andEnglish,inparticular.Studentsusedtolearnlanguagesbymemorizinggrammarrulesandwordlists.Someunluckyonestilltrytolearnthisway.Itisalmostimpossibletobecomesk
Todaywewanttotellyousomethingaboutlearningalanguage,andEnglish,inparticular.Studentsusedtolearnlanguagesbymemorizinggrammarrulesandwordlists.Someunluckyonestilltrytolearnthisway.Itisalmostimpossibletobecomeskillfulinspeakingalanguageunlessyouuseitandallmodernmethodsarebasedonthistheory.Thecourseyouhavebeenstudyingisaudio-visual:thismeansitattemptstoteachyoubymatchingsoundsandpictures.That'swhyithasbeencalled"Look,listenandlearn".Thepictureshelpyoutounderstand,rememberandusethelanguageyouarelearning.Thesemethodscanbeusedintheclassroomorinalanguage-laboratorywherestudentspractisedrillswhichhavebeenrecordedontape.EglishistheofficiallanguageusedinAustralia,Canada,theBritishIsles,NewZealand,SouthAfricaandtheUnitedStatesofAmerica.Butithasalsobecomeinternational,andistheprincipalsecondlanguagethroughouttheworld.PerhasthroughEnglishwewillbeableunderstandeachotherbetter.wewillbeabletocommunicatewhateverpartoftheworldwecomefrom.