1. Textbook Revolution! Learn English A-Z katiealicebarron@gmail.com
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2. Languages are Easy
More than half the world's population uses two or more languages every day. (British Council)

3. Why do students fail? The problem is the courses and books:
Not enough vocabulary
Too much grammar
Setting students up to fail
Destroying students’ confidence.

4. Current textbooks ignore
how the human brain learns language

5. Research: second language similar to first language

6. How do children learn language?
understanding before speaking
single words first
needs & feelings

7. Language Development Milk! Want milk! I want milk! Milk, please.
Can I have some milk?

8. Learning Grammar (Lightbown & Spada 2011)
Students learn grammar in a set order regardless of textbook or teacher
Similarities: second language learners from different language backgrounds

9. Negation (Schumann 1979, Wode 1978)
1. no/not
2. no, not, don’t – ‘I don’t can sing’
3. can not, was not…
4. don’t, doesn’t, didn’t

10. Questions (Pienemann, Johnston, Brindley 1988)
Dog? Four children?
It’s a monster in the corner?
Where the children are playing?
4. Can you do it?
5. How do you say this word?

11. Learn English A-Z
Follows natural stages of language learning Minimal grammar explanations Grammar words explained Examples, not rules Lots of vocabulary Helps memory through: Needs & Feelings Pictures Humour

12. Conventional Textbook

13. Learn English A-Z

14. Learn English A-Z

15. Conventional Textbook (Reward)

16. Learn English A-Z

17. Building Vocabulary

18. Learn English A-Z Book 2

19. Learn English A-Z series
6 levels, Beginner to Advanced
Teenager and Adult
Study at home / Classroom resource
Piloted with teenagers & adults, wide range of nationalities & abilities
Paperback and Digital download
Digital book with Audio, currently available through
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