AJ Hoge Power English is an online system that can be viewed and downloaded from anywhere in the world. It is designed to help people who want to learn how to speak and listen, particularly. It is claimed that this system will enable people to learn fast if they put in the recommended amount of time.
A feature of this system is that it can be downloaded immediately upon purchase, and stored on a MP3 player. Speaking and listening can take place whenever convenient, even when taking exercise. Such unimpeded practice is the key to learning fast. That is why the word 'power' is used.
During the latter half of the twentieth century important theoretical work on language acquisition was completed. As a result of research in Applied Linguistics a new approach to language teaching and learning was developed. It became known broadly as 'communicative' language teaching because it recommended teaching approaches based on learning the natural way, by copying the speech patterns that we hear when the target language is being used in daily life.
Teachers tend to fall back on teaching the way that they remember being taught in school. This is why teaching develops so slowly. Whatever the theory taught in teacher training colleges, when a teacher is plunged into the fire of practice with a room full of upturned faces before him the tendency is to fall back on grammar and vocabulary explanations.
In fact, real language learning takes place when students themselves are talking and listening in order to respond. Language actually involves more than sound. Gestures, facial expressions and voice modulations are very important aspects of communication. When using a language for real purposes one has to understand thing like idiom, slang and irony because these things convey real meaning.
Many Chinese people who teach English in Chinese schools are hardly able to make themselves understood in an English speaking community, and the same would certainly apply to English speakers with a smattering of formal Mandarin picked up in London evening classes. Real competence comes only with practice in using the language to communicate in real life.
The materials developed by AJ Hoge Power English are based on academically respectable principles. The fact that the materials are based upon authentic speech samples that occur in realistic contexts is to the advantage of learners. They get the feel for the idiom of the language and this helps them to learn faster and more powerfully.
A feature of this system is that it can be downloaded immediately upon purchase, and stored on a MP3 player. Speaking and listening can take place whenever convenient, even when taking exercise. Such unimpeded practice is the key to learning fast. That is why the word 'power' is used.
During the latter half of the twentieth century important theoretical work on language acquisition was completed. As a result of research in Applied Linguistics a new approach to language teaching and learning was developed. It became known broadly as 'communicative' language teaching because it recommended teaching approaches based on learning the natural way, by copying the speech patterns that we hear when the target language is being used in daily life.
Teachers tend to fall back on teaching the way that they remember being taught in school. This is why teaching develops so slowly. Whatever the theory taught in teacher training colleges, when a teacher is plunged into the fire of practice with a room full of upturned faces before him the tendency is to fall back on grammar and vocabulary explanations.
In fact, real language learning takes place when students themselves are talking and listening in order to respond. Language actually involves more than sound. Gestures, facial expressions and voice modulations are very important aspects of communication. When using a language for real purposes one has to understand thing like idiom, slang and irony because these things convey real meaning.
Many Chinese people who teach English in Chinese schools are hardly able to make themselves understood in an English speaking community, and the same would certainly apply to English speakers with a smattering of formal Mandarin picked up in London evening classes. Real competence comes only with practice in using the language to communicate in real life.
The materials developed by AJ Hoge Power English are based on academically respectable principles. The fact that the materials are based upon authentic speech samples that occur in realistic contexts is to the advantage of learners. They get the feel for the idiom of the language and this helps them to learn faster and more powerfully.
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Those people who post an Effortless English review are almost uniformly in favor of the information and presentation style of the lessons. You can check out the free materials before making a decision to join the Effortless English Club
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