What stage of competence is this learner at?
E&T: The Blog Language Coaching for high performance professionals Anyone undertaking learning goes through four psychological stages before becoming competent according to the “conscious competence” learning model developed by Noël Birch for Gordon Training International*. The first stage the learner will go through is unconscious incompetence where she or he doesn’t know she or he […]
Why Will You Love Language Coaching?
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Learning French: why start with oral?
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Understanding French: six tips for active listening
Practicing active listening in second language can help you understand French better.
What are your goals?
You are learning a second or foreign language. You are therefore pursuing one or more personal or professional goals. What are they?
What Is Stopping you From Moving Forward?
You show great motivation to learn a language. However, you are unable to accomplish the tasks you set for yourself to achieve your goals more quickly, such as watching programs in the language learned or reviewing new vocabulary daily. Maybe you underestimate the power of friction.
To Learn a New Language, you Have to Speak up!
E&T: The Blog Language Coaching for high performance professionals When you learn a new language, you open the window to a multitude of potentially fruitful and rewarding exchanges. However, when it comes time to physically open your mouth, you may be overwhelmed by the complexity of the task. Talking very little or not at […]
Discerning the Sounds of a Foreign Language
The principle of the phonetic sieve (Nicolas Sergeevich Troubetzkoy) establishes that a person without a sound in his mother tongue (MT) will associate the most similar one with a sound heard. Speakers of a language are therefore not really deaf, but their brains are sometimes unable to discern foreign sound.
Mental health check
E&T: The Blog Language Coaching for high performance professionals Mental health break It’s the beginning of the Holidays, do you find yourself having the attention span of a goldfish? If so, it’s time you give yourself a mental break! Last Friday, we stopped our workshops for the Holiday season. For some, that cut-off […]
Lisa Francesca
E&T: The Blog Language Coaching for high performance professionals « Il n’y a pas plus grande agonie que de porter une histoire inédite à l’intérieur de vous. – Maya Angelou (Traduction libre) Mon début de parcours en enseignement commence par celui prescrit par le Ministère de L’Éducation. Durant mes 10 années passées sur le terrain dans […]