Tag: speaking
Speaking Spanish
First, let us take a look at what students are hoping for, what we are hoping for as teachers, and why speaking in class might not happen as spontaneously as we might have hoped.
Students,...
Audio Dissection
Language is as much a skill as it is a subject. Therefore, language learning must involve not only vocabulary and grammar study, but also practice and training of the skills necessary to communicate in...
Everyone’s Speaking Spanish
According to an analysis of the 2011 American Community Survey by the Pew Research Center, a record 37.6 million people above the age of five speak Spanish at home, of which nearly three million...
Mathematically Speaking
Gisela Ernst-Slavit and David Slavit explore the linguistic challenges created by calculations
Do you speak math? Not sure what we mean? Well, math can be thought of as a language filled with vocabulary, symbols, and...