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Buggers
Getting the Buggers into Languages
The fully updated new edition of this practical guide provides teachers with a range of innovative strategies for motivating pupils of all ages in modern foreign languages. Containing new material for primary teachers, as well as more teaching tips, additional lesson ideas and an extended directory, Amanda Barton shows how learning a language can be fun. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of modern language teaching, this book will prove essential reading for every modern language teacher.
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192 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2004
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Amanda Barton
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October 17, 2013
Best way to increase your learning speed:
1) Find what excites you when learn a language
2) Stay away from what does not excite you
3) Learn in groups
4) Break down the learning experience - is best to learn in 30mins interval.
As the brain works best by learning in small bits.
People would be rather corrected by a partner than a teacher in public. I guess that's the pride of "saving face".
Rhyming helps with retention better, that's why songs help to imbed the new language easier into the memory.
Tips to learn a language
1) Fun History session and try to describe the events from the photographs in that adopted language.
2) Learn an exotic language from a website eg: bbc chinese or mandarintools.com
3) Learn about fascinating facts . For eg: learning 3 facts a day and learn how to describe it.
Eg: using trivia websites such as rdasia.com or dailysoft.com
Eg: Why was Eiffel Tower build?
Eg: Why was the Berlin Wall Build? What are the outcomes from it?
1) Find what excites you when learn a language
2) Stay away from what does not excite you
3) Learn in groups
4) Break down the learning experience - is best to learn in 30mins interval.
As the brain works best by learning in small bits.
People would be rather corrected by a partner than a teacher in public. I guess that's the pride of "saving face".
Rhyming helps with retention better, that's why songs help to imbed the new language easier into the memory.
Tips to learn a language
1) Fun History session and try to describe the events from the photographs in that adopted language.
2) Learn an exotic language from a website eg: bbc chinese or mandarintools.com
3) Learn about fascinating facts . For eg: learning 3 facts a day and learn how to describe it.
Eg: using trivia websites such as rdasia.com or dailysoft.com
Eg: Why was Eiffel Tower build?
Eg: Why was the Berlin Wall Build? What are the outcomes from it?
November 21, 2012
Although it's aimed at teachers in the UK, teaching other languages ( whereas I teach EFL) there are still some useful ideas to pick up, as with the other books in the "bugger" series, must reread some of them.
May 31, 2014
A lot of useful information and interesting insights into how students actually think.
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