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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...

Christine and her daughter hiking in the Alps, with a waterfall and forested slopes behind them

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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