Succeed

Advisor Rachel Viné-Krupa remembers a few learners who were particularly successful in their self-directed learning.

For example, one learner who, while I was helping her to learn English, started giving advice herself, transposing the advice I gave her and passing it on to her partner. She told me at every meeting that what she had done at the centre she was doing at home with her husband, who also wanted to learn English. So I think that’s a great thing because it’s a transfer of skills and then she herself became an adviser to her husband, so that’s a nice memory. At the end of the course I also had a learner who told me that now that he’d learnt English he was going to do the same thing himself with Arabic. So he already had some knowledge of Arabic, and he explained to me that he was going to look for materials himself and start applying what he’d done with English to Arabic, so I think that’s pretty cool.

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