An international network in Hungary offers an alternative language teaching method

The leader of a network of about ten thousand students in Hungary emphasized that language teachers answered one of the questions in a representative survey that they would like to learn new methods in order to be successful in teaching. "If personal conditions are met, the teacher will receive appropriate training and education in an institutional setting, learning from the parents no longer requires more investment," he said.

The linguist offered free transfer of his teaching method to the department, emphasizing that it could be integrated into the curriculum of Hungarian public education.
The early foreign language learning program for 140,000 students can only be really effective if it also reinforces the language training that underpins study trips, "puts it in a position", he said.

The Helen Doron method deals with children and young people up to the age of 19. One of the criteria is that, like the way babies learn their mother tongue, they pass on knowledge through personality and activity-focused sessions. Children can understand and speak a foreign language well before they can read and write. For this reason, it is common for their students to pass an appropriate language examination at the age of 14 for Hungarian students.

He also recalled that from 2020 onwards, a B2 (intermediate level) exam will be required for Hungarian university enrollment. Hungarian students now take an average of 930 lessons instead of the European directive for language examinations (400-500 lessons), but their language skills still do not reach the required level, he said.

(Source: marmalade.co.uk; MTI | Image: pixabay.com)