For too long English Education has focused on grammar because grammar is easy to test.
Now conversation is easy to test. This fundamentally changes how foreign languages can be taught.
Now you have a choice:
Grammar-based Englishtries to prevent 10,000 mistakes and then measures ability by how many mistakes you make.
Conversation-Based Learningis all conversations, and conversation tests. Students find and fix their own mistakes. Simple. It works because of human nature: What gets tested gets done.
For details go to: ConversationBasedLearning.com
This teacher's manual details Conversation-Based Learningfrom the first-day Placement Test to the last day Improvement Data. On average, speaking improves 50%, and TOEIC, TOEFL and IELTS scores 20%.
English Education got so fixated on grammar that it misses the One Big Thing. The goal of learning a language is Speaking Ability. Here's how to get it.
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Conversation-Based Learning
1 It's easy. Students do all the talking. MS Word gives their ability. Simple.
2 You can prove they improved. The first test measures their ability, the second test measures their improvement.
3 You get both: Speaking Ability and TOEIC scores. Speaking improves 50%, which improves TOEIC, TOEFL and IELTS scores 20%.
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Grammar-based English is like the diet industry. It seems logical that it would work, but the success rate is 2%. Stop the insanity.
