How is language taught?
Language is taught through using it in authentic situations. Activities are centered on a theme that has been selected in accordance with the interests of the students (my family, hobbies, etc.). The children work together to complete projects related to the theme, for example, surveying music preferred by their classmates. The children learn language orally first, using correct forms and structures. In this way they build an internal grammar that guides them to construct sentences. This internal grammar is necessary for them to be able to speak accurately and fluently. Once writing activities are introduced, attention is given to the aspects of written language that they must know in order to write accurately, for example, verb forms, number and gender agreements, spelling, etc. Thus, children learn the external aspects of grammar in the context of learning how to write what they can say.
