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The effectiveness of learning methods in teaching foreign languages

The aim of this study is to analyses and evaluates different methods in learning English as a foreign language. Effective teaching combines a number of methods (individual work, pair work, group work, role playing/simulation) so that the experience of the student is varied and the different learning styles of students can be catered for. The article seeks to answer the question which is the most effective method that enables students to make use of the English knowledge appropriately in actual communication. In order to do that, the students were given a questionnaire to explore their opinion about the effectiveness of learning methods. The research was carried out among the full time students who have been attending the courses of English as a foreign language at the University of Pula. The author concludes that the students find role play/simulation method as a most creative and successful method of studying language.

English as a foreign language ; individual work ; pair work ; group work ; role play/simulation

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