Comments for ELT World North America /northamerica Your guide to teaching ESL in North America Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Students who don’t speak English bring challenges by cheerdope /northamerica/2009/01/students-who-dont-speak-english-bring-challenges/#comment-27 cheerdope Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:09:31 +0000 /northamerica/?p=80#comment-27 I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too... I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too…

]]> Comment on Texas teachers learn new bilingual techniques by Brian Barker /northamerica/2008/12/texas-teachers-learn-new-bilingual-techniques/#comment-21 Brian Barker Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:07:10 +0000 /northamerica/?p=72#comment-21 As far as learning another language, is concerned, can I put in a word for the international language, Esperanto? Although Esperanto is a living language, it helps language learning as well. Five British schools have introduced Esperanto in order to test its propaedeutic values. The pilot project is being monitored by the University of Manchester and the initial encouraging results can be seen at http://www.springboard2languages.org/Summary%20of%20evaluation,%20S2L%20Phase%201.pdf You might also like to see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670 Confirmation can be seen at http://www.lernu.net As far as learning another language, is concerned, can I put in a word for the international language, Esperanto?

Although Esperanto is a living language, it helps language learning as well.

Five British schools have introduced Esperanto in order to test its propaedeutic values. The pilot project is being monitored by the University of Manchester and the initial encouraging results can be seen at http://www.springboard2languages.org/Summary%20of%20evaluation,%20S2L%20Phase%201.pdf
You might also like to see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670

Confirmation can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

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