Language Teaching Quotes

“What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching — the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

“Participating in the filling of others' brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities and dissimilarities taught in different words.”
― Messaoud Mohammed

“Concentrating on the rhythm or intonation, a stress pattern of an expression helps
pupils memorize it. Memory works mysteriously. If we try clapping the rhythm of a
song, the words miraculously come to mind; if we hum the tune, the words come
as well.”
― Alec Templeton, Teaching English to Teens and Preteens