Oxbow Language Institute

second language acquisition, research and education seminars. publishing. consulting. teacher-training. boston..zurich..taipei..frankfurt..kunming..chengdu -- oxbow's specialty is training teachers to instructor students specific methods in the acquisition of a second language. -- this sub-specialty is unique. no other firm has tackled the issue of: how do students study a foreign language? - instead they focus on training teachers classroom methods only. teachers have a student for 45 minutes. what happens when the student returns to his dorm and studies for 3 hours? -- educators assume that studying a foreign language is the same as studying history, math or social studies. this is categorically a false assumption. teachers cannot hand students a grammar book and assume that the student knows how to study a foreign language. -- "students don't know how to study." -- columbia university press -- referring to american university students, jeffrey karpicke, ph.d. director, the memory an