Day 02 of French (B1.2) wasn't bad. I can tell that I'm really taking this class as an adult... all those Jane Vella texts about adult education are coming back to mind. Motivation is different than it was as a child. Needs are different. Even learning style is different.
But I don't think I'm a typical adult learner, because all those theories are coming back up to the surface, being re-analyzed themselves as well as helping me think about what the teacher's doing at the moment. Prof. A. is a Parisian woman who's finishing some advanced course in education while working at Alliance Francaise. She always surprises me, since just when I think she's really honing in on some content-specific goal, she's switch to asking us how much we can remember about other people in the class. Or she'll change directions and ask one of us to bring out some nuance in previously-covered material, or to define some word all of us should know but don't.
So. I like her.
And the class is quite international. Another plus.
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