All Beyond Language Learning blog posts from newest to oldest:
- How Can We Learn to Speak a Language without Speaking It?
- How to Acquire a Language with Tutors and Exchanges, and Speak It Like a Native Speaker
- How “Parallel Structure” Can Enhance Comprehensible Input with More Meaningful Repetition of Language
- Starving for Comprehensible Input
- Freedom to Play
- Abundant Compelling Comprehensible Input: What We’re Aiming For, and How to Get There
- Looking For a Shortcut?
- How to Make Input-Based Language Teaching More Efficient: Comprehensibility, Repetition, and Memorable Experience
- The Focus on Age over Method in Language Learning Harms Children as Well as Adults
- How Automatic Language Growth Might Help Preserve Endangered Languages
- Some Limiting Ideas about Language Learning and an Alternative Approach
- This Whole Language-Learning Thing Really Affects People
- How Young Children’s Mimicry of Language is Very Different from Adult Learners’ “Listen and Repeat”
- Beyond Language Learning: Looking Forward in 2019
- Beyond Language Learning: Looking Back at 2018
- Advice to heritage language learners: Don’t focus so much on the language!
- What are you doing reading this blog?
- How Meaningful Repetition of Language Supports Comprehension and Acquisition
- An ALG student understands only a few words after over 30 class hours. Has that time been wasted?
- Guessing for meaning can be helpful, but it’s not what ALG is really about
- The Dangers of “Cargo-Cult” Thinking in Applying the ALG Approach
- We Need Opportunities To Pick Up Languages Without Study
- Automatic Language Growth: The Story So Far
- We Need Experience of All Kinds for Better Language Learning
- Is the Classroom Context Killing Comprehensible Input-Based Language Teaching?
- AUA Thai Program Alumni Create Comprehensible Input for Beginners
- Where Is All the Comprehensible Input?
- Audio description of TV and movies: a great source of comprehensible input for language learners
- My experiences using Crosstalk to learn Thai
- My experiences using Crosstalk to learn Mandarin Chinese
- Looking back and forward: One year of posts on Beyond Language Learning
- One year of Beyond Language Learning
- Language learning research and opportunities for comprehensible input: a “chicken-and-egg” problem
- How ALG relates to other comprehensible input approaches like TPR, TPRS, and Story Listening
- What is the future of Automatic Language Growth?
- Failure
- The ALG-shaped hole in second-language acquisition research: a further look
- The ALG-shaped hole in research on second-language acquisition
- If language learning is harder for adults, why give them less and not more? Part three: Listening experience
- If language learning is harder for adults, why give them less and not more? Part two: A “silent period”
- If language learning is harder for adults, why give them less and not more? Part one: Comprehensible input
- Are ALG and AUA really that different from other language learning methods and programs?
- Is Automatic Language Growth “passive learning”?
- Listening classes
- Learn languages like children? Adults aren’t even given the chance!
- Is correction needed to learn to speak a language well?
- Real Language Learning
- The difference between ALG and AUA
- What is Automatic Language Growth?
- Welcome