Developing a Virtual English Language Institute Using the PLS Method
Abstract: This paper intends to introduce and recommend applying the PLS method on the internet to literally create virtual English, and perhaps, other language institutes. PLS is a newly developed language teaching method which relies mostly on the power of imagination and random combinations of pictures. It also constantly makes imaginary use of students’ five physical senses. The practicality of the techniques implemented in this method has been successfully experimented with students of various nationalities so far. After PLS is explained in brief here, the authors try to elaborate on the necessity and, then, feasibility of applying its techniques online as virtual e-classes. Consequently, these classes would be combined in appropriate forms and groups to constitute ‘e-language-institutes’.
Presider: Tsan-Jui Cheng, Teachers College, Columbia University