The website that I was given to research is, InterLingo Spanish, it looks like a website that is made to help people learn spanish. The benefist to learning Spanish, is that there are many instancs nowadays that speaking in spanish would be helpful. One of these instances are that it would be helpful to know how to speak spanish, would be for travel, as well as there are alot of spanish speaking americans today, that can not speak English very well, and it would be beneficial to us, to be able to communicate with them, even if it is just on a low level of speech. One activity that are on this webiste to help you learn Spanish and more about the Spanish Culture is a lesson about coffee, becaue it is a big industry in latin america. It shows you a video about the production and about coffe, and then there is a activity that you can plant your own coffee plant and grow it.
This website is effective because it has all areas of learning, you are able to look at pictures, and videos, as well as get DVD's and diffferent programs, that you area ble to use. There are also online classes that you can enroll in, for essential spanish, intermediate, and advanced.
Accepted research about language
acquisition
Acquisition of a foreign
language is an area of active research
- before the age of 5 children do no distinguish
between native and foreign languages
- children can speak without an accent before
reaching adolescence
- Spanish speakers are the fastest growing
demographic in the US
- Spanish is one of the top 5 most-spoken languages
in the world
- language standards in Europe and developing
countries are generally higher than the US
- language acquisition is
most effective as a naturalistic experience promoting listening and reading
practice and stressing involvement in life-like conversations
