ALG Linguistics (Part 5)

Lessons Learned

One final Chinese language story, and then Antonio Graceffo leads students in a wrap up, drawing conclusions and talking about what they learned from the ALG method. They discus applications for classrooms and boardrooms.


ALG, Automatic language Growth, is a second language acquisition theory, developed by Dr. J. Marvin Brown, of the United States. The method is currently being used to teach, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese, at AUA School in Bangkok, where David Long continues Dr. Browns research. Antonio took the concepts he learned, while studying under David Long, and applied them to teaching in Taiwan. This video was filmed at one of Antonios linguistics seminars at a university in Tainan, Taiwan. The participants learn to employ an ALG tool, called Cross Talk to communicate across barriers. In the video, you will hear people speaking Chinese, English, German, French, and Thai.
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[brooklynmonk1]

you hit the nail on the head. in taiwan and korea, the worlds biggest ESL markets (china too but the money stinks) there are so many cultural barriers to learning a foreign language.

[aaronpetrie]

Brilliant, thought provoking, a tour de fource sir. That said, we're all here working against an entrenched Buxiban system. There's the "No Chinese" rule. There's the fact that these kids (or even adults) have spent years doing apparently counterproductive rote memorization for so long. I could go on. This is great stuff, you've made me a believer in the space of 30 minutes. That said, how would you go about applying it in a Taiwan buxiban setting?