Communication Strategies for Second Language Acquisition

Language learners often freeze up or completely stop communicating when they hit a point of language that they dont know how to navigate. Antonio Graceffo teaches his students that it is OK to make mistakes. And when they dont know how to say something, they should describe it or talk around it. To demonstrate, Antonio tells a Chinese story to his students, and has them keep a tally of his mistakes in spoken Chinese. In spite of his more than 40 mistakes, the students understood the whole story.
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[ezyroller]

cool stuff. just curious - was this class in the US? PRC? Taiwan?

[brooklynmonk1]

this class was in ROC, Taiwan

[mxracerdtf2003]

Great video showing how to teach english to a second language learner. I like how Teacher Antonio asks the students to correct him and gives them all different jobs. This is a great strategy because each student can focus on one aspect of the language for the day while not having to worry about every thing else. It also seems key that these students have 10 hours of language development each day. Great video, thanks.

[marthabbb]

hi, i appreciate your video a lot and i'm putting your link onto the bibliography of my research paper, i hope you don't mind :)

[dboyzero]

Good strategies, hand motions are pretty universal, no?