The new-look frenchteacher.net site is now up and running. Thanks to Harry Green for the redesign. I have left some of the resources free (Spanish, powerpoints, teacher guides and whiteboard notes and links). The main resources sections are accessible by subscription at £20 per year. Just go to the site if you wish to sign up. I have chosen a low cost annual subscription, hoping that lots of people will choose to continue using the resources. I shall be adding lots of new stuff.
I hope you like the simple, easy to navigate design.
http://www.frenchteacher.net
The natural order hypothesis states that all learners acquire the grammatical structures of a language in roughly the same order. This applies to both first and second language acquisition. This order is not dependent on the ease with which a particular language feature can be taught; in English, some features, such as third-person "-s" ("he runs") are easy to teach in a classroom setting, but are not typically fully acquired until the later stages of language acquisition. The hypothesis was based on morpheme studies by Heidi Dulay and Marina Burt, which found that certain morphemes were predictably learned before others during the course of second language acquisition. The hypothesis was picked up by Stephen Krashen who incorporated it in his very well known input model of second language learning. Furthermore, according to the natural order hypothesis, the order of acquisition remains the same regardless of the teacher's explicit instruction; in other words,
I'm so disappointed that you have started charging for the use of this excellent resource. I'm a Canadian teacher and really enjoyed using your site. I know your nominal fee is small, but we don't get a budget for this sort of thing. I'll really miss your excellent resources.
ReplyDeleteIt's been free for ages, but as I am retiring and wish to write new resources with no classes to teach, it seemed daft not to charge. If it were me, I'd stump up the £20 myself to save me some time preparing!
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