My fourth day at the University of Maryland

Today I have learned that one of the best teaching methods I can apply when teaching English is the sociolinguistic one. Unlike the cognitivist method (which is centered in the individual and restricted to the written language), the sociolinguistic one is centered in the way language is used in real-life situations, and makes use both of the written and the oral language. Indeed, the cognitivist method is primarily based on written grammar and discourse, whereas as the sociolinguistic one is based on the way that human beings learn their first language in real life.