There are many factors that affect how well a student manages to learn a foreign language – student`s motivation, natural talent and diligence, quality of the lecturer and the chosen teaching method.

Bill Louden was a member of the Rowe Review into the teaching of reading in Australia. Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused particularly on the ...

Examining the concept of Method in second language education, this paper argues that both a historical analysis and an investigation of its current use reveal little conceptual coherence. Ultimately, ...

John A. Rassias, a Dartmouth College professor of French and Italian who created a method to teach languages that was adopted by the Peace Corps, died Dec. 2 at his home in Norwich, Vt. He was 90.

HANOVER, N.H. – A Dartmouth College professor who created a unique language-teaching method that was adopted by the Peace Corps in the 1960s has died. John Rassias (RAH'-see-iss) was 90. The college ...