How does “Art of English” work?

The “Art of English” uses a “new” language arts technique based on three little verbs:

Model, Practice, Enrich.

 

What makes “Art of English” different?

• It provides natural connections for the students: Models of art, music, poetry, drama and historic writings to vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing and pronunciation.
  
  
• Historical perspectives from primary sources to contemporary events and viewpoints.
  
  
• It views language as a socializing process, not a fill in the blanks formula.
  
  
• As students “experience” America’s past, they are better able to understand its people and their ways. Learning through the arts makes it easier to connect their new culture to their own.
  
  

Remember how you learned your native language from
your first teachers, your parents?

• They modeled by naming a person (mama, dada) place (car) or
  thing (cookie).
  
  
• You practiced by repeating the word until you “got it right”.
  Sometimes it took lots of different ways to practice in order to
  “get it right”.
  
  
• If you were lucky, your parents teachers had the time and
  enthusiasm to enrich your newly acquired language by telling
  stories, singing songs, encouraging you to communicate your
  feelings. That’s how it happens here.
  
  

These culture-arts based activities combined with the model,
practice, enrich technique engage our senses and evoke feelings.
We all need to feel a part of our learning.

• When you are fully engaged in something, you lose self-consciousness, you stop holding back: positive feelings increase, confidence builds.
  
  
• The more positive the feelings, the more the desire to express yourself. The more desire to express yourself, the more communication skills increase.
  
  
• And so it goes: confidence shows, your language grows.