Blog Entry 2
As our world is changing, I feel like everything is also changing. Change does not have to necessarily mean a bad thing. It could actually be for the better. This is what I believe about the impacts that research has on teaching practices today. Through time, our teaching practices have shown progress from learning to just look educated or intelligent to actually learning how to communicate orally with others. As it further states, “because there was little if any theoretical research on SLA in general or on the acquisition of reading proficiency, foreign languages were taught as any other skill was taught” (Brown & Lee, 2015, p.17). Later, more teaching methodologies were developed, which show a sign of growth. It is important for the profession of SLA to have research on how second, foreign or additional language is best learned because they want to ensure that what they are doing is appropriate and to learn even more on how to help their students. I believe that as teache...
