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Prepare for the TOEFL at iTunes U

12.31.2009

Students who take the TOEFL need to be familiar with academic English. There’s no better place to find academic English than iTunes U!

Read to write

12.01.2009

Reading is a powerful tool for improving your ability to write in English, or any other language. But that should not be a surprise because most of our fluency – our ability to read, write, speak, and listen – comes from reading and listening to understandable English.

It’s not broken!

10.11.2009

A student recently called his English “broken.” I have a different opinion!

How hard do you have to work?

10.10.2009

What’s the secret? Working harder? Or working smarter? Research studies suggest that reading is both effective (it causes the desired result) and effective (doesn’t waste time, energy, or money) for language development.

The Basics – Introduction

10.07.2009

Developing language ability is a natural process. The Basics is a series of short articles that describe how the process works and how you can benefit from it.

1 – Two ways to know a language

10.06.2009

Language specialists tell us that there are two ways to know a language. If you want to improve your English, you should understand the difference.

2 – What comes first?

10.05.2009

Some parts of a language are acquired before others; there is a natural order, or sequence. And that may be good news for you!

3 – Quality control

10.04.2009

Language that we acquire give us most of our fluency (ability). But language that we learn is also helpful: it helps us be more accurate, or correct.

4 – Only one way

10.03.2009

If most of our fluency, or ability, comes from language that we acquire, what do we need to do to acquire more?

5 – Don’t worry, be happy

10.02.2009

Your feelings and attitudes can make a big difference! A little bit of psychology for English learners.

Inside the brain

10.01.2009

Language acquisition from the inside! A little fantasy – and a lot of truth – about what happens inside the English learners brain.

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