Expert's view on Russian foreign language courses industry
Languages are urgently needed today and on a large scale. The urgent goal is to enable any person to master a foreign language over a course of 12 lessons of four academic hours each. This would seem like a miracle, but you would say that there is no such thing as a miracle. Well, that is now an outdated view. Today, such linguistic ‘miracle’ is possible, and I can say this with certainty, as I’m ready to prove this statement in practice, as well as with thousands of truthful testimonials from our students.
The very simple truth that has continued to evade human understanding is that mastering of a foreign language is a swift process and, therefore, cannot last for months, let alone years. At the same time, the process of its ‘perfection’ can and must proceed for as long as a student deems it necessary and expedient to study the foreign language. In other words, while some would be fully satisfied with a course of 12 lessons of 48 academic hours and be able to read in a foreign language, others would like to take a course of conversational skills far beyond the everyday communication needs to advanced knowledge of the language and continue to improve it further. In other words, the process of perfection becomes both deeper and broader in scope.
With regard to schoolchildren and pre-school-age kids, were it within my competence, I would have banned teaching foreign languages before the 9th grade. The matter is people just don’t realize that such a slow training regime from an early age makes the children lose interest in foreign languages, an interest that can never later be recovered in life. Meanwhile, there is a new didactics, the so-called adaptive system, which we use in our center. The author, Antonina Granitskaya, created a totally new way of organizing a teaching process. We wish the author had lived to see our new methodology, the ‘Sliding methodology,’ in action.
“The very simple truth that has continued to evade human understanding is that mastering of a foreign language is a swift process and, therefore, cannot last for months, let alone years.”
The key distinctive feature of our teaching technology that differentiate it from all the other methods in use today is that it gives a positive result in a very short time. Currently, we cover only three languages – English, German and French. In the non-distant future, learning a foreign language will take 2-3 months in the 9th grade, after which those wishing to continue can study one or two more languages using the same technique. Generally speaking, it is impossible to highlight the essence of our new system in a few words. The goal setting theory, discreteness principle, new type of speech activity, text linguistics, universal algorithm, new didactics, unconscious words memorization, etc. Here, more emphasis is placed on humaneness, kindness and striving for knowledge.
The pillars of our company’s position on today’s market are quite simple: these are humaneness, endeavor to help and self-confidence. Our new system’s distinctive competitive advantages are high efficiency, utmost humaneness and lack of coercion. Finally, I would like to say that 40 years of intense creative work by our team have generated a tremendous result that all of us are very proud of.
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