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*Did you know that there is no single best method for learning a language?

 

For as long as human beings have been learning languages, language-teachers have been searching for a single best method that will solve their problems. They have never found such a method because there isn't one.

 

So why is there no single method we can recommend? For the simple reason that we require a great variety of methods to learn different language tasks.

 

Obviously, teaching foreign-language reading skills to young kids is a different matter from teaching these same skills to highly educated adults. There are so many different skills, major and minor, that we need to master when we're learning a foreign language. There are major skills like understanding and speaking, and sub-skills like note-taking, reporting, using a dictionary. Everyone of these skills requires its own method which is adapted precisely to the needs of particular learners. These separate methods can then be broken down into steps which the student can master through practice. A good language course is therefore like a tapestry of different, but interlocking, methods which taken together make up a system.

 

ECC has a system consisting of a wide variety of methods. Within the course there are methods for mastering important skills like understanding and speaking, but there are also methods for mastering sub-skills like asking and answering questions. There are different kinds of speaking and reading activities teaching learners how to cope with transactions, and how to hold everyday conversations.

 

ECC, therefore, is a total system.

 

 

 

 

ECC Teachers