@Quill You sure about that?

I'm stuck thinking of a useful question.

People are posting a billion questions like "is there a study that shows a learner whose grandma's a learner is a better learner?"

Yeah...

@Quill There's no such thing as horrible rep. Least on a private beta... Rep means next to nothing at this stage... we're all working together to define the site, and make it a success. Success isn't measured by an individual's rep... it's measured by going into public beta, and later a graduated site.

@bilbo_pingouin You should narrow that number down considerably. Linguistique is a very wide denomination. Most linguists work on the language itself, only those whose research deals with "didactique des langues" would be experts in the teaching of languages, and there very very few of them.

@Laure that just makes my point clearer, doesn't it?

@bilbo_pingouin There might be large discrepancies according to countries and languages. In some countries language teachers are properly trained (initial and in-service training), in others it is believed speaking the language is enough to teach it.

In France this is a debate because there is a lack of language teachers, chiefly in English... an English native could easily find a job teaching here, without the proper training they are not good teachers. Learning how to help students set about their learning tasks should be part of any teacher's training. In France "teaching how to lean" (apprendre à apprendre) is written in every school subject curricular.

Mmm, I think chat just entered into its silent phase.

And the private beta heat has subsided greatly.

after the initial chaos, serious things can begin

@IͶΔ I think that came with all the initial closing and reopening

With the heat gone, some users will break off from the rest and prove themselves as active members in this site. Hopefully those users become our pro tempore moderators!

not that you need to be a mod to be an active member ;)

Read this: The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta

^^^^ I forgot to post this earlier. Please read this instead of the obsolete and misleading blog post that's linked to on meta.