Our Philosophy
Our teaching philosophy combines the most productive aspects of child language acquisition (right brain) with more traditional analytical approaches (left brain). Each of these approaches is a very powerful learning tool. When combined properly they each enhance the other and make language learning fun as well as productive.
The four aspects of language (listening, speaking, reading and writing) are taught simultaneously and from the first meeting. You go home the first night with a bag of tricks for practicing pronunciation, awestruck by the scientific, utterly logical approach of the ancient Sanskrit grammarians who designed the Devanagari writing system.
You have a CD to listen to with the alphabet song on it and the tiny short story you have just read in class. You have also been shown how to write each of the letters in the story. Your assignment is to listen to the story and to write it in the Devanagari script until you know all the letters in it and how they are put together to form words.
The next week you play a matching game that helps you read more quickly, using prediction techniques.
We act out stories and play games like Twister that require physical activity be paired with language. This pairing of physical activity and language creates more neural pathways for the words to attach to. The availability of multiple neural pathways enhances recall.
We also do good, old fashioned drills and memorization. And I spend time each week demystifying the textbook.
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