To teach and to learn a language is by far a lot more than learning 3,000 words. It is to understand and control the morphology of words, particularly compounds; and it is also to understand and dominate the syntax of the language; it is this third element that is known as communicational power or competence within this language. Each learner is special and original and requires a special and original way of learning. This is a lot more complicated than it sounds because it cannot be taught in a class like 2+2=4. It has to be learned from the practice of communication and that can only be achieved if the communicational tasks are real or at least under the pressure and urgency of a situation that makes communicating the only way out.

2. LA GRAMMAIRE DYNAMIQUE DE L’ANGLAIS
https://www.academia.edu/28658747/Grammaire_anglaise_avec
_exercices_corrig%C3%A9s
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Pour étudiants ou enseignants d’anglais
francophones
English is a living language and as such it has a living grammar. That’s this living
grammar I tried to capture in this textbook or description. It is in French, except of
course the quotations and examples. The ordering party at the time of research and
writing wanted it in French.
But a grammatical description of a language cannot help you with speaking the
language, at times not even with reading it. Beyond the grammar you may learn and
understand you have to develop
a practice of the language.
Nowadays I am only working
with advanced students who are
engaged in advanced careers in
medicine or in hi-tech, for
instance Artificial Intelligence.
Up to last year I also worked in
the very specialized field of
payroll and pay slip
management.
The best method for “self”
learning and teaching is to look
for means to be in contact with
oral and written English on a
very regular basis and to be able
to practice written and oral
expression in English. Today
with modern communication, the
Internet, email and the
telephone, smart or not, one can
have that constant contact with
English, oral and written,
reception and production.
That’s what I practice with
the students I work with. I propose for example triads of activities based on documents
available free in open source, both written (news articles and various reports) and oral
(podcasts, news programs, films), and each stage of the triad (that has three stages)
leads to a 1,000-1,200-word essay and a one-hour telephone conversation on tasks,
topics set from the very start.