Growing Participator Approach: Our Experience as Amharic Students and Teachers of Spanish and Russian Languages

  1. Mas, Roser Noguera 1
  2. Baiguatova, Gulnara 2
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

  2. 2 Lycee Gebre Maryam
Revue:
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

ISSN: 1877-0428

Année de publication: 2015

Volumen: 178

Pages: 169-174

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.SBSPRO.2015.03.175 WoS: WOS:000371242300029 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

D'autres publications dans: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Résumé

In this paper we demonstrate the main components of Greg Thomson's Growing Participator Approach through our experience of this methodology in learning Amharic. We analyze the positive aspects of this approach as well as the challenges.

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