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From http://musicuentos.com

Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell writes, “When I graduated from my master’s program in Linguistics with an emphasis on Second Language Acquisition, I suffered from a fundamental misunderstanding. I thought that there was a consensus on the general principles guiding how language acquisition works, what that means the second time around, and what that understanding ought to mean for the classroom teacher.

“I was wrong. I have since come to understand that differences exist on everything from why and how to implement ACTFL Can Do statements to how and why to assess students in their skills.”

Ms. Cottrell goes on to list six points of what she believes are general points of agreement among language teachers regardless of methodological approach, along with different perspectives on each one in this thought-provoking post on best practice in language teaching: http://musicuentos.com/2016/07/agreemen