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Michel Thomas Method: The Learning Revolution Hardcover – May 30, 2008

by Dr. Jonathan Solity (Author)

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The publication of the Michel Thomas ground-breaking, all-audio language learning materials has been a publishing phenomenon. Sales of over one million units in just eight years and the universal acclaim his method has excited would indicate that there is a large body of people who want to know more about how and why his method works where so many others have failed. The book will give a brief history of Michel's fascinating life and summarise how he became interested in teaching foreign languages, before going on to look at the experience of learning a foreign language in general and Michel's method of teaching in particular. It examines the barriers to language learning in both the UK and the US, Michel's focus on the role and quality of the teacher rather than the learner, and Michel's core belief that with the right teaching anyone can learn another language quickly and easily. The reader will be introduced to new trends in psychology and their relationship to the way Michel teaches foreign languages as well as examining conventional wisdoms. There follows a detailed analysis of Michel's programmes for foreign language teaching and the implications for schools, colleges and universities if they wish to adopt his methodology and at the same time meet the requirements of the public examinations both in the UK and the US.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (May 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0340928336
ISBN-13: 978-0340928332
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,201,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5946 in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Study & Teaching

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A good introduction to instructor centered learning, more than to Michel Thomas

ByGeoffrey Bon September 23, 2011

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There's a lot of useful information in here about teaching methodology and about Michel Thomas. Unfortunately, the book overall is hodgepodge rather than synthesis at times. You get the sense that Sollity really wanted to write a book about instructor-centered learning, but knew that it would sell better if piggybacked on the success of an instructor who used something like it albeit that he had come to on his own.

The big insight that Thomas and instructor centered learning share is that the purpose of testing isn't to document whether students are learning. It's to be sure they are learning and to correct one's teaching if they aren't. This is the heart of the success of the original Michel Thomas tapes - since he was teaching actual students he couldn't cram in more than you could actually learn by listening to them. The book covers this well, as well as the secondary factor of breaking down learning into small building blocks that can be easily mastered and readily tested.

However, it feels as if the author doesn't quite bring together the Micel Thomas Method and instructor centered learning. If you want to learn about either, or both, there is useful information in here. But it is up to the reader to sort it out.

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Doesn't "reveal" the secret; It *buries* it. The only really important thing, I'll tell you in this review.

ByOwen_Ron August 17, 2012

This book *certainly* won't tell you how to design your own courses using the "Michel Thomas Method".

But here's the secret: Everything in the "Michel Thomas Method" that makes it so uniquely effective (and *efficient*) is an approximation of the Theory of Instruction used by Siegfried Engelmann and associates in developing their "Direct Instruction" (DI) programs.

Solity doesn't *mention* Engelmann and DI until a hundred pages into the book, and then he totally fails to highlight it, among all the other "interesting things" that are referenced, as the single one that is actually *The Point*.

Google the introductory open module on Siegfried Engelmann and DI at Athabasca University.

But Engelmann and Carnine's Theory of Instruction *will* tell you everything you need to know to develop programs better than Michel Thomas's yourself.

They were too busy doing other stuff to put the information into a format that will make it *easy* to actually start applying it. But it is out there.

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