Language Teaching Philosophy

Many students imagine language learning as a straight road. First you study: Step by step.Lesson after lesson.Topic after topic. The idea sounds logical. But real language learning almost never works this way. In practice, language development looks less like a straight road and more like a network of connections that gradually become stronger. Understanding this […]

And Why I Tell My Teachers Not to Continue Someone Else’s Lesson At first glance, language teaching often looks like a simple process. A student studies with one teacher.Later the student changes the teacher.The new teacher asks: “What did you study before?” Then the teacher continues exactly from that point. This approach sounds logical. But […]

At some point in almost every discussion about language learning, someone says a familiar phrase: “What method do you use? The communicative method?” It sounds professional.It sounds academic.And it is almost always meaningless. Because the idea that a serious language school operates on one single teaching method is a myth. Real teaching does not work […]