Act Approach

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition through Creative Teaching (ACT). This book is written for teachers, that is, for a wide range of professional communicators and facilitators of learning. It is designed as a practical guide for teachers who wish to learn how to use the art of suggestion to help students tap remarkable brain capacities.

Lynn Dhority University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.

Preface, Acknowledgements, Chapter 1: The brain as background, Chapter 2: The contribution of Lozanov, Chapter 3: Language acquisition/Language Learning, Chapter 4: The ace model of accelerative, full-spectrum learning, Chapter 5: Some "how-to's" of suggestion, Chapter 6: The evocative power of words, Chapter 7: Getting started right, Chapter 8: The act text, Chapter 9: Music and the Presentation of material, Chapter 10: The activation phases, Chapter 11: Error correction, grammar and homework, Chapter 12: Documented results I, Chapter 13: The act approach for the U.S. Army, Chapter 14: testing, Appendices, References, Bibliography