Charlene Polio discusses facts and myths about the challenges of language learning, and suggests strategies for framing the learning process, whether your students are motivated or anxious.
Dr. Polio is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages at Michigan State University, where she teaches in the Master’s Degree Program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and also in the Second Language Studies Program. She gave a talk last week as part of our monthly LRC Speaker Series titled “Are Some Languages Really More ‘Difficult’ to Learn?” and we will extend our conversation about language difficulty on our podcast.
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S2E5 - Derron Borders - Language House at Cornell University
S2E4 - Stephanie Divo - Cornell’s Chinese Language Program
S2E3 - Lisa Sansoucy - Languages Across the Curriculum
S2E2 - Bill VanPatten - Talkin’ L2 with BVP
S2E1 - Angelika Kraemer - Communicative Language Teaching
S1E13 - Dick Feldman - Language, Technology, and the Future
S1E12 - Meejeong Song - The Korean Language Program at Cornell
S1E11 - María Luisa Parra - Art, Language, and Culture
S1E10 - Alice Wu - Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids
S1E9 - Michael Fontaine - Reviving a Dead Language
S1E8 - Adeolu Ademoyo - Storytelling Across Sites
S1E7 - Christopher Kaiser - Distance Learning for Less Commonly Taught Languages
S1E6 - Error Correction in Second Language Acquisition
S1E5 - What is Intercultural Competence?
S1E4 - Susan Gass - Learning through Conversation
S1E3 - Are There Good and Bad Language Learners?
S1E2 - English in the World
S1E1 - Audiolingual Method and Reel-to-Reel Tape
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