🔁 Language Acquisition Course — Seven Lessons
By the end of this training, you will understand not just what to teach, but how language is actually acquired — and how to design your classes accordingly. This is not about trends. This is not about teaching style preferences. This is about cognitive reality.
🎯 Level: Teacher Training ⏱ Time: 90 minutes 📘 Category: Language Acquisition
📚 Seven (7) Lessons
💬 Message from Joe
How Students Acquire English as a Foreign Language is a professional development program designed for English teachers who want to move beyond grammar explanation and start teaching for real acquisition.
This development program trains teachers to:
- Understand how second language acquisition actually works
- Debunk common teaching myths
- Design fluency-building lessons
- Create high-impact online classes
- Diagnose teaching patterns that block progress
- Implement research-based strategies immediately
This is not theory-heavy academia. This is applied acquisition science for real classrooms. Most teachers are trained to explain English. Few are trained to build it. This development course bridges that gap.
Based on foundational acquisition research (Krashen, Swain, Long, Schmidt, VanPatten and others), this program translates theory into clear, practical, classroom-ready instruction.
Teachers leave with:
- A new lens for understanding student progress
- A diagnostic framework for evaluating their teaching
- A structured implementation plan
- Confidence in what actually creates fluency
Download the book this course is based on: “How Students Acquire English as a Foreign Language – An Acquisition-Centered Approach for Online Educators” by Joe Ehman
✅ Housekeeping
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