Sunday, July 12, 2009

My latest project

I am working on a new framework for second language acquisition. This new model will include the latest research on brain learning, the philosophy and theories of second language acquisition, the proper place of applied linguistics and the introduction of native language speakers into the second language acquisition paradigm. I am aiming to compile the most comprehensive model using all of the means that are at our disposal today. I will attempt to compile all of the models that are presently used - not only in the USA but elsewhere as well - and look for a way to harmonize them into one concrete structure.
I am working on this in German, my mother tongue. I am not interested in ESOL only. English's role in the world is seeing numbered days. In the future, other languages are going to be assuming an importance that today's teachers can barely understand. The time when the United States and the United Kingdom (where they ever really united or where they forced into submission?) ruled the world are over. Students in other countries are going to be looking for newer solutions to the world's language challenges.
I am surprised at the resurgance that Esperanto is experiencing online, especially on Youtube.
All the better!