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On the "About Us" page (Click Here) I discussed the need for the following things to produce effective language learning:
- Collaboration (guidance of a native and the contribution of every student)
- Achieving literacy by creativity, discussing, analysing and comparing, cause and effect (reasoning), retelling and storytelling
- Deep learning
Learn Articulate English follows these rules of effective language learning. In order to encourage deep learning and avoid surface learning there is no fixed curriculum and students are not given lists and principles to memorise, but instead they are presented with opportunities to see and put into practise - this causes English to become ‘second nature’. Current topics and articles are chosen from the internet each week; they cover a variety of subjects to keep the interest of the student. Through the different types of lessons offered by Learn Articulate English these topics will be discussed and analysed; students will give their opinions and write short articles of their own (creativity, reasoning and storytelling); and, the most used principle of all, students will express various paragraphs and sentences using different words (creativity and retelling).
The use of these principles alone will accelerate the learning of any student, but that is not all. The administrator’s job is to collect the ‘best work’ that will offer the most learning opportunities to everybody, and post them online for every student to see and participate further (see below). All the work that is posted online will be corrected and the administrator will also rewrite (retell) the work as well as giving an alternative way of expressing it. This is true collaboration, everyone will benefit from everybody else’s work. Everybody learns and builds on the work of others. The best lessons will be learnt when everybody tries to learn as best as they can.
“Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque’s studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other’s work. A canvas wasn’t finished unless both of us felt it was”
Pablo Picasso (in a letter to Francoise Gilot)
How does this work in practice?
Each week there are at least 4 new lessons online (so you have choice).
The types of lessons are: Comprehension, Written, Listening, Creative Clinic and General Clinic.
In ‘Comprehension’ lessons there is a link to an article online. The student will read the article and then answer a set of questions to help them understand the material. Questions are designed to test whether the students understand the vocabulary and the context of the article - to help them analyse the article. They may be asked to describe something or express a sentence in a different way. If any student has a question about the article or any of the administrator questions they can ask. Answers will then be posted online for everybody to see. The answers to the administrator questions will be posted after a few days so students have a chance to work on them.
In ‘Written’ lessons the student will be asked to write a few hundred words on a particular topic (storytelling). It may relate to an article online, or they may be required to do some research online. Work that is chosen and posted online by the administrator will be corrected and an alternative way of expressing each one (retelling) will be given. If the students have any questions about any of the material or any other students’ work they can ask and the response will also be posted online for everyone to see.
In ‘Listening’ lessons the student will be given a piece of audio to listen to (either a file to download or something to listen to online). They will then have some questions to answer to see if they have understood what was said. It works in exactly the same way as ‘Comprehension’ lessons. Questions are designed to test whether students understand the audio, the vocabulary and the context. The questions will help them analyse the audio and they mat be asked their opinions (storytelling) or to express some of it in a different way (retelling). If any student has a question about the audio or any of the administrator questions they can ask. Answers will then be posted online for everybody to see. The answers to the administrator questions will be posted after a few days so students have a chance to work on them.
In ‘Creative Clinic’ lessons the students have complete freedom. They can send in short articles or pieces they have written on any subject (storytelling). If the administrator chooses one it will be posted online with a corrected version and students will be asked to send in their alternative ways of expressing it (retelling); any pieces of work that the administrator chooses will be corrected and posted with the original version. ‘Creative Clinic’ is true collaboration - it depends on everyone working together to get the best results. More things will be learn when more people participate.
In ‘General Clinic’ lessons students have the opportunity to send in sentences and short paragraphs they have written for correction and to be expressed in a different way. They can also ask language questions. Any pieces or questions that the administrator chooses will be posted online for everyone to see and for students to try and rewrite them. These lessons depend on students working together to build a good lesson and provides good opportunities to learn.
As you can see, the lessons follow the principles of achieving literacy and also use the benefits of collaboration.
You will learn far more than having a tutor and you have far more flexibility than a standard class. These principles are how natives learn their languages naturally. Research has shown that they are the best way to achieve fluency in a second language too. I believe that Learn Articulate English can help you become bilingual if you put in the effort. It is not stressful, it is simple; it is not mechanical, it is natural. English will become ‘second nature’.
Thank you for reading my story and what Learn Articulate English is all about. Before you register for your money-back guaranteed 30 days to try the service (if you haven’t already) I want to leave you with the quote I started with and a promise:
“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism”
Louis A. Berman
If a teacher gives examples that are ‘over simplified’ the student will only ever be capable of simple speech. Administrator responses at Learn Articulate English will be English as it is actually spoken by that person everyday, even more so than everything you have read so far. If there is anything you do not understand then look it up, or ask the administrator - this is how you will learn true English.
Please take a look at the “Sample lesson” page - you will see Learn Articulate English in action and how easy the learning process is.
Learn Articulate English is a great opportunity and I hope to be learning with you very soon. All the best in your studies, friends!
Jonathan Abery
Manager of Learn Articulate English
"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals"
Brian Tracy
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery"
Mark Van Doren
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand"
Native American Saying
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