Learning a foreign language has advantages such as improvement of cognitive skills, career advancement, cultural enrichment, and so on. Some benefits are easier to appreciate than others, but there are also advantages that we often do not even consider. I would like to briefly share some ideas about how to improve our communication skills, as well as argumentative discourse...
Communication and Argumentation: Are They Twin Sisters?
Learning a foreign language has advantages such as improvement of cognitive skills, career advancement, cultural enrichment, and so on. Some benefits are easier to appreciate than others, but there are also...
Foster Teamwork in a Foreign Language Class
Teamwork is a life-long learning skill useful at school, university or work. Nevertheless, it might seem rather demanding if agreements must be reached in a language which is not our mother...
Does Studying Have to be Painful? Could You Not Learn by Having Fun?
Paradoxically as it may sound, the best way to acquire a new language is not studying it, but dedicating your efforts to learn something specific using a new tongue. Most people...
Lures to Stimulate Autonomous Learning
Is it worth it to be an autonomous learner? I bet you have posed the same question to yourself, particularly when some students appear to shirk their responsibility for their own...
There May be Additional Benefits When Learning a Foreign Language
There are two ways to learn a new language: one is by studying the language for its own sake and the other is to assimilate it in the clothing that envelops...
Is ChatGPT The Magic Wand so Many Proclaim?
Artificial intelligence has been around for some time now. It has been revolving around us, sometimes unnoticed, and at times because it was our choice to let it in. And the...
