横浜 英会話スクールのナイカラ　ヨーロッパで人気の英語学習方法「カランメソッド」本格導入校

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1. Suitable for all types of student

The Callan Method is also suitable for any type of student, of any cultural background, from waiter to university professor. Learning a language in its initial stages is not an academic activity. It is more akin to learning to type - anyone can do it.

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2. Suitable for all purposes of study

The Method is suitable for any purpose of study - university exams, Cambridge Certificates, business, commerce, science, technology, tourism, or any other field of activity requiring a knowledge of English. Up to the level of the Cambridge First Certificate, the English language remains the same no matter for what purpose the student is studying. After that, the student can be said to be specializing, perhaps for the purposes of literature, commerce, business, or science, and at that point may need to adopt a different approach to the language.

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3. Equal speaking time

Another feature of the Method is that all the students in a class enjoy an equal amount of speaking time. With most other methods the most talkative of the students do nearly all the speaking whilst the others usually sit in silence.

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4. Shyness

A further feature of the Method is that it overcomes the student's shyness. Many students when learning a foreign language are afraid to speak it. With the Callan Method being based largely on oral question-answer work, the student is forced to speak, and consequently soon overcomes his fear.

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5. Suitable for students of all ages and all nationalities

The Callan Method is suitable for students of any age from seven to seventy, and of any nationality, and can obtain excellent results with both young children and elderly people.

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6. Poor memory is overcome by constant revision

The two greatest enemies of learning are boredom and poor memory. The Callan Method overcomes boredom through speed, and poor memory through revision. Revising everything four or five times, not only ensures speed of speaking and understanding, but also ensures that the student remembers what he learns (usually for the rest of his life), no matter how poor his memory.

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7.The two meanings of speed

There is the danger when talking about the Callan Method of confusing the two meanings of the word "speed". Two things are meant by speed: 1) the speed of the lesson, that is, the speed of speaking and understanding, and 2) the speed of progressing through the Callan Method books and reaching a certain desired level. The Callan Method gets its students to the desired level in a quarter of the normal time, and, at the same time, teaches its students to speak and understand much faster than with other methods.

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8. The Callan Method looks similar to other methods

At a superficial glance the Callan Method might look similar to other methods, in the same way as a car of today looks similar to a car of the 19th century : it has four wheels, an engine, a brake, an accelerator etc. The difference is, however, that a car of today can travel comfortably at 80 miles an hour, whilst a car of the 19th century could hardly exceed a walking pace. The Callan Method has not invented the Direct Method (this has been in existence since languages began). What it has done is simply to speed up the learning process by eliminating waste, and simplifying the subject for easy digestion, thus reducing studying time to a quarter.

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9. The Method can be used at state schools and universities

The Callan Method is also suitable for use at state schools and universities. Some state-school and university teachers, however, are reluctant to use it, as they feel it is something of an insult to their profession. Such teachers have often spent several years learning English and learning to teach it, and so, quite naturally, do not take kindly to a method that can train virtually anyone to teach the subject in a matter of a few days, provided he speaks the language well or it is his mother tongue. What such teachers do not realise is that, because the Callan Method teaches the language so quickly, it leaves more time for them to teach the literature, the history and the culture that go with the language. In any case, it is very unfair on the students and on the taxpayer to force students to spend four years learning a subject that can be learnt equally as well in one - it is a waste of time, money and energy. If a teacher, a school, or a university refuses to use the Callan Method, the student could remind them that it is his time, money and energy that are being wasted, not theirs - although, in a certain sense, they too are wasting their time and energy taking four years to teach something that could be taught in one.

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10. American English

Some students might wonder how much difference there is between English-English and American-English. There are, of course, differences in pronunciation and accent. Each part of England and America has its own accent, but standard English-English and standard American-English do not differ very much. As for vocabulary, out of the 4,400 words the student learns to the level of the Cambridge First Certificate, only about 40, i.e. less than 1%, differ in use or meaning between the two types of English. The English, for example, will say "petrol", "pavement" and "autumn" whilst the Americans will say "gas", "sidewalk" and "fall". Many of the differences, however, are understood on both sides of the Atlantic.As for spelling, only seven of the 4,400 words are spelt differently by the Americans, i.e. colour-color, centre-center, favourite-favorite, theatre-theater, humour-humor, cheque-check and labour-labor.