Oscar Swan on Immersion teaching of Polish

[Anna Frajlich-Zajac]

I drink to that.
It is an excellent study indicating that we cannot throw out the grammar with the bath water.
I hope my English is not totally fossilized.
Anna

Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Ph.D.
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Columbia  University
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On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Anthony Anemone <AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU> wrote:

> Colleagues! Have others yet read Oscar Swan's article in the most recent SEEJ (58:1, Spring 2014, pp.113-131)?  
> 
> Although I'm not a specialist in second-language acquisition, I have taught the Russian language for well over 20 years at 4 US colleges and universities and his argument makes a lot of sense to me. I'm wondering what the rest of you think about the "immersion" method in teaching grammatically-complex languages like Russian and Polish.
> 
> Tony
> 
>  
> Tony Anemone
> Associate Professor
> The New School
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> New York, NY 10011
> 
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