... Grammar-Translation Method for teaching a spoken language is not effective any more but it could be used henceforward in the teaching of the classical languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew etc. as it was always used in that field. As these languages usually are not spoken any more we can study them in ... the rules and then apply them to other examples. They learn paradigms such as verb conjugations, and they learn the native language equivalents of vocabulary words. If there are similarities between the target language and the native language students are taught to recognise cognates by lear...

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... 3 Richards presents some factors such as "to provide input at an appropriate level of difficulty and to provide examples of words and grammatical structures and give accurate explanations (e.g., of vocabulary and language points)" (Richards, 2011). I have chosen those factors because for someone who is learning a second language is very important to receive the appropriate input, that is, being able ... related to an investigation which was carried out along our country. According to the EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) (2013), Chile has one of the lowest levels of English in Latin Am...

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