French is spoken with a mininum of translation,
even with beginners. Emphasis is on the spoken word, with the students learning to read and with only what they have learned to say and understood.
Gestures, illustrations, flash cards, and objects, are used to introduce basic and advanced vocabularies as well as concepts.
There is no formal grammar instruction; instead, students are absorbed a grammatical system naturally, by using it in conversation.
The main purpose is to train the students to speak and think in the French language, not translated, to associate new words with objects and ideas, rather than with the distractingly familiar words of their mother tongue.
My goal is to maintain the students active and interested, by replacing rote learning with discovery process. It solved many of the problems that had plagued language instruction and students in the past.
Once French class is finished, homework is assigned to the students. |
