Biography francois gouin

Miss Mason practiced François Gouin’s method for learning languages. At the core of Gouin’s method was something called a Gouin Series: a set of statements that described a single event or process.

The following is a segment of his “I open the door” series: I walk to the door, I stretch out my arm, I grab the doorknob, I turn the doorknob, the door turns on its hinges, the door opens, I let go of the doorknob. Gouin believed that we learn best when we are learning to use verbs in sentences and when those sentences are narrating something we can do or see around us.

He created series to describe every aspect of life so that students could articulate in the new language what they saw and did.

Biography francois gouin

Language learning might include tourist phrases and words, but the main goal was to be able to hold conversations about every aspect of life.

Learning a series is the basis of each lesson. Students first learn the series in the native tongue.

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