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Before the Framework, a Forest: What English in Nature Taught Me About Adult Language Acquisition adult language acquisition dela english in nature

Before there was a framework, there was a forest.

English in Nature was a programme I developed and ran, on and off, between 2012 and 2023: German children, outdoors, learning English without a singl...

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DELA Explained: The Four Conditions Your Brain Needs to Acquire a Language dela experiolingo language acquisition

DELA, Dynamic Experiential Language Acquisition, is the framework underneath everything ExperioLingo does. Its core claim is simple: your brain has a language-acquisition capability that never switche...

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Why I Stopped Believing in Most of How Languages Are Taught dela english in nature experiolingo

Hi, I'm Christine. I've been teaching languages since 2005, and somewhere along the way I stopped believing in most of how it's done.

I don't say that lightly. I have spent more than thirty years stu...

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Studying a Language vs. Acquiring One: Why Knowing the Rules Won't Get You Through A Bakery Visit dela experiolingo language acquisition

Studying a language and acquiring one are not the same thing, and most of the frustration adult learners feel comes from treating them as if they were.

You can know that the dative case exists and st...

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