Romanian Language as a Foreign Language: The Tailor-Made Strategy.
Romanian Language as a Foreign Language: The Tailor-Made Strategy. by Tudor Vladescu 1. WHY?
The teaching and assessment of learners of Romanian as a foreign language have become especially important in recent years. A growing number of demands for Romanian language classes come from persons who belong to different age groups and professions. The classic approach to teaching Romanian as a foreign language consists of a classroom-environment method based mainly on handbooks, tapes / CDs. It also relays on each student's capacity to work at home. This has frequently proved inappropriate for persons who are not accustomed with learning by themselves or who are much too busy to sit and write exercises at home. The tailor-made strategy for teaching Romanian as a foreign language is an alternate way to the classic handbook-based method. I have been experiencing with this method for the last five years and it has proved to be efficient. 2. HOW?
The most important issue related to learning Romanian has always been the negotiation between each student’s need and the resources available to the teacher. As the Romanian grammar is quite intricate and the offer in term of handbooks is not satisfactory, the teacher faces quite often a very high level of expectancy that he / she is not able to fulfil using only the classic handbook-based method. With the tailor-made strategy, things change significantly. If the student agrees to taking up the tailor-made strategy, the Romanian teacher will provide an overview (plan) of the the course after two introductory meetings. This overview will actually be a set of topics and grammar structures that are to be studied during a standard course of 32 hours divided in 16 classes. Each overview contains also a list of targets most likely to be reached at the end of each course. 3.WHAT?
The tailor-made strategy is a method based on texts or exercises taken from one, two or more handbooks, as well as from alternate supports
The teaching and assessment of learners of Romanian as a foreign language have become especially important in recent years. A growing number of demands for Romanian language classes come from persons who belong to different age groups and professions. The classic approach to teaching Romanian as a foreign language consists of a classroom-environment method based mainly on handbooks, tapes / CDs. It also relays on each student's capacity to work at home. This has frequently proved inappropriate for persons who are not accustomed with learning by themselves or who are much too busy to sit and write exercises at home. The tailor-made strategy for teaching Romanian as a foreign language is an alternate way to the classic handbook-based method. I have been experiencing with this method for the last five years and it has proved to be efficient. 2. HOW?
The most important issue related to learning Romanian has always been the negotiation between each student’s need and the resources available to the teacher. As the Romanian grammar is quite intricate and the offer in term of handbooks is not satisfactory, the teacher faces quite often a very high level of expectancy that he / she is not able to fulfil using only the classic handbook-based method. With the tailor-made strategy, things change significantly. If the student agrees to taking up the tailor-made strategy, the Romanian teacher will provide an overview (plan) of the the course after two introductory meetings. This overview will actually be a set of topics and grammar structures that are to be studied during a standard course of 32 hours divided in 16 classes. Each overview contains also a list of targets most likely to be reached at the end of each course. 3.WHAT?
The tailor-made strategy is a method based on texts or exercises taken from one, two or more handbooks, as well as from alternate supports