First things first: What is subject / verb agreement? It’s a grammatical rule that states that the verb must agree in number with its subject. In English, present tense verbs change to show agreement in the third person singular form by adding an S (or ES). Seems fairly straightforward, doesn’t it? So how could it be that …
7 hypotheses that may account for some adult students’ perplexing lack of progress in their language learning. This post offers no solutions, of course. Only reflections and further questions.
This post is a short anecdotal account of two lessons I taught in 2002. Why on earth, you must be wondering, would I have any sort of recollection of two lessons I taught nearly ten years ago. It so happens that those two lessons were very significant because they helped me to finally make sense …
There’s a very interesting discussion taking place on Scott Thornbury’s blog right now, sparked by his brilliant “feel” post. The central question he attempts to address is one which has been incessantly nagging at me for at least fifteen years: What’s the role of linguistic intuition in language learning?
