Metodika final exam. What is linguo-cultural teaching and learning?

Speak about distant learning

In “Serving the System: A Critical History of Distance Education” Jennifer Sumner writes, “Although its beginnings are disputed, the history of distance education is well documented, especially in the 20th century” (Sumner). Though there is some discrepancy when determining the origins of distance learning, countless sources are informing what happened next! Let’s take a look at some major occurrences and dates in the evolution of distance learning.
Some sources trace distance learning as far back at the 1700s. Soon after this time, distance education was practiced through a method called correspondence education. This form of education grew without bounds, and swept across countries.
Some argue that the beginning of distance learning was “in 1840, [when] an English educator, Sir Isaac Pitman, taught shorthand by mail” (UFL). Pitman would mail text on postcards to students, and students would mail their assignments back to him. Correspondence courses continued to catch on, and the Museum of Distance Education timeline reveals that, in 1858, the University of London became the first college to offer distance learning degrees.
30 years later, the largest private for-profit school based in Pennsylvania, the International Correspondence Schools, was founded in 1888 to provide training for immigrant coal miners aiming to become state mine inspectors or foremen. It enrolled 2500 new students in 1894 and matriculated 72,000 new students in 1895. The growth was due to sending out complete textbooks instead of single lessons, and the use of 1200 aggressive in-person salesmen. By 1906 total enrollments at the International Correspondence School had reached 900,000

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    Advantages and disadvantages of TPR
    

Advantages:

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  It is fun and easy
  
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  It does not require a great deal of preparation on the part of the teacher.
  
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  It is a good tool for learning vocabulary.
  
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  Class size does not need to be a problem.
  

There is no age barrier.
Disadvantages:

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  It is not a very creative method. Students are not given the opportunity to express their own views and thoughts in a creative way.
  
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  It is easy to overuse TPR.
  
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  It is limited, since everything cannot be explained with this method. It must be combined with other approaches.
  

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