The students have a high affective filter as they are afraid to make mistakes in front of their teachers and peers.

We were treated to a series of dry lectures on audiolingualism.

This project has developed CLIL cross-curricular units of work in French and German.

The course takes a communicative approach to language learning allowing ample opportunity for learners to practise what they have learned.

Here are five tips to help you face and overcome your shyness and make community language learning successful for you.

a contrastive analysis of the major Romance languages

The third step is to give your students controlled practice in using the past simple.

Most of the speech sound errors that internationally adopted children make are common developmental errors.

In extensive reading the individual reads at his or her own pace and level.

My research focuses on first language acquisition, specifically early speech perception.

An excess of positive feedback may reinforce errors and could eventually lead to the fossilization of such errors.

Idiomaticity is sometimes regarded as the icing on the language learning cake.

Speakers of Romance languages are inclined to use words that resemble words in their L1s in place of multi-word forms.

Learners learn and produce the L2 with varying degrees of accuracy at different stages of development.

The LAD reflects Chomsky's underlying assumption that many aspects of language are universal.

The lexical approach is based on the idea that an important part of language acquisition is the ability to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks.

Krashen's natural order hypothesis holds that the grammar of a second language is learnt in a specific order, whatever the learner's L1.

It is at points of negotiation of meaning in conversation that learning and development occur.

Proponents of cognitive learning theory believe that noticing is a prerequisite for learning.

The order of acquisition for EFL is similar but not exactly identical to the order of acquisition for English as mother tongue.

Errors, overgeneralization of rules and sometimes mixing languages are a natural stage of language development.

Teachers should be sensitive in the way they respond to learners' personalizations.

In process writing, the first thing that a writer needs to do is to find something to write about.

the opportunity to practise spoken language production skills

Direct assessment works well for productive skills such as writing or speaking.

Listening and reading are considered to be receptive skills.

During the long silent period students focus only on listening.

Task-based learning can offer students and teachers a valuable means of developing language proficiency.

The theory of whole language learning was adapted from the theories on the acquisition of oral language.

The idea of ZPD comes from Vygotsky's theories about learning as a socialcultural process.