by laacademia-author | Jun 12, 2015 | Language classes, Languages
Nearly all the research whether from Europe or further afield shows that language students are not very worried about being in a language class, but that their anxiety levels rise when they are asked to speak in the target language. The reasons for this tend to be:...
by laacademia-author | Jun 10, 2015 | Languages
As a language school, we are often asked by students what techniques can help you learn a language? We recently surveyed some of our language students to learn more about the methods they use, and thought we’d share this so other language learners can benefit. All the...
by laacademia-author | May 28, 2015 | Languages, Spanish classes
The US is increasingly a bilingual country. With 37m native Spanish speakers, up 233% since 1980, when there were 11 million Spanish speakers (pewresearch.org), more attention is being paid to which candidates can debate in Spanish, and which of them are translating...
by laacademia-author | May 8, 2015 | Language classes, Languages
During la Academia’s recent research with learners at our language school, one of the interesting findings was on the question of learning languages in a group. We asked our students about their experience of learning in a group – specifically their reasons for...
by laacademia-author | Apr 30, 2015 | Language classes, Languages
We are currently running a language learner survey with our students at la Academia to understand more about their learning styles and what they find helps when learning a language. It’s still early days, and a little early to be drawing any final conclusions....
by laacademia-author | Mar 28, 2015 | Languages, Latest News
Some interesting and slightly scary research from Lancaster University, recently published in the journal “Psychological Science”, shows the way that we think is affected by the language we are using. Professor Panos Athanasopoulos researched bilingual German and...
