The history of foreign language education has proven that foreign languages cannot be acquired through rule studying, reading, writing, memorizing, listening, watching, and/or conversation. Few of us know that conversation is possible only after he/she acquires the required skills.
There is one and only method for one to be good at playing the piano. We know what it is. Likewise, there is one and only method for one to be good at speaking a foreign language. Yet, many of us, especially the leaders of foreign language education, still don’t recognize it.
This book provides very simple solutions to the questions from many frustrated teachers and students about foreign language education: ‘Why not?’, ‘What if?’, ‘So what?’, ‘How about?’, ‘What?’, and ‘How?’ Readers will learn about the one and only assuring method to be fluent in their target languages.
Circa l’autore
The author is a Korean American; he taught himself English to be fluent in Korea; he taught English in Korea before he came to the USA; he completed the Master and Ph D courses in Linguistics with focus on second language acquisition at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; he developed the BTM program and applied the program in his teaching Korean at the University of Colorado and other colleges for over 10 years; he also applied the BTM in private programs teaching English to immigrants, and he has experiences of different environments and students where his teaching with the BTM succeeded or failed. He knows the ropes.