re: #175 Aceofwhat?

Well, it speeds up language acquisition for some, but not all people, to teach it in a formal setting. It certainly speeds up literacy by a huge amount.

However, in terms of acquiring an accent, there isn’t any reason to believe that they ignore the input from all of the other sources to ape their teacher’s accent. Furthermore, as someone noted above, rotating teachers is the ‘in’ thing these days, though I’ve only heard that for non-immersive language learning; I’m not sure it’d actually make any sense for immersion.