Yesterday it finally happened. I got to meet the one-and-only Gianfranco Conti in person. The workshop held at George Watson's College was so insightful and my head is still spinning from all of the information and resources that were shared. I took lots of notes that I need to process first but the main take-aways for me were definitely the...
Very pleased that the German Primary/Absolute Beginners Sentence Builder book is out. It has been a pleasure working with Silvia Bastow and the Language Gym Team. Thank you for the opportunity to co-author this gem, which will hopefully help learners of German to catch the language learning bug. Viel Spaß beim Deutschlernen.
I love this particular podcast GF Conti did a while ago. In it, he explains the principles of E.P.I. in a digestible way and gives concrete examples as to how to embrace his method. Even though I've listened to it a couple of times, I sometimes re-visit it, to refresh my memory. Episode 2 is to be found right here...
Once students reach the Expansion stage, they are highly primed. That's when grammar teaching comes in. Patterns gets unpacked to help students make sense of them. In this stage, I can clearly see the difference to the more traditional way of teaching grammar. Especially students with low literacy skills are more able to make sense of grammatical...