Helping the learner to change his or her ideas about learning

There’s one thing you have to watch out for, I think, and that’s the satisfaction or dissatisfaction you feel in a slightly confused way, but we all have this reaction at first. Oh, it went well, because the person left with a smile on their face or because you had the feeling that you had done what you had to do. So I think that’s something to be wary of, because experience shows that it’s not always as meaningful as that. On the other hand, when you have the feeling, or rather the certainty, because what’s just been said proves it, because what’s just been done proves it, that someone’s representations have changed. He comes to you and says, well, I’ve done some work over the last few weeks, and I’ve tried to see how the community whose language I’m trying to learn goes about using this or that word, and I’ve looked up several occurrences, compared them and so on, And I think that’s a good indicator for evaluation, when people start to show in their initiatives that they are making progress in their representations of what a language is and what it is to learn a language, for example.