What is the relationship between language and culture? Should language teachers "teach culture"? Why are growth mindsets in teachers and in students important when it comes to teaching culture?

Nurture a growth mindset environment in which everyone feels comfortable making mistakes, acknowledging them and using them to improve their learning outcomes. 

Growth mindset will help you learn a new language. In this episode you will learn how to develop your growth mindset and how to put an effort in memorizing new vocabulary by making your own resources. You don't have to be an artist or have a perfect handwriting to create a valuable resource and use it as a reference. In this episode, Kasia will share why it is important, what should you make and how should you use it in your language learning journey. 

What is "authentic language" and why is it important to include it in your language study? How do you find time to listen to target language regularly during your busy schedule? What are the resources of authentic language that you could use? Listen to Episode 3 of Growth Mindset in Language Learning in order to find out!

In this episode you will discover why it is difficult to speak a target language from day one and why it is particularly hard to do if you are a fixed mindset person. Kasia shares 7 suggestions on how to cultivate your growth mindset, speak a target language from day one and not let a fixed mindset environment bring you down.

In this episode, Kasia introduces the theory of mindsets and explains why it is so important to have a growth mindset when you are learning a new language.  Tip number one on how to use your growth mindset to improve language skills is to make communication your goal. How can you do this? Listen to this episode and find out!