clean up and clarify the lead, remove additional names which don't seem to be in use, and soften the language to reflect that it is not conclusively proven or widely used
The '''Paderborn method for language teaching''', also known as the '''Paderborn method''' or '''Paderborn model''' is a proposed method for teaching foreign languages, originally conceived for children's education. It consists inof first teaching a student a simple language (usually [[Esperanto]]),thenfor two years, laterthen teaching them a second language.Manyfor studiesseveral confirmedyears after that. learningThe atime completespent andstudying easyEsperanto [[propaedeutics|propaedeuticalhelps the student acquire the second language]]helpsmore inquickly, latersuch learningthat athey end up more difficultproficient onein withthe nosecond lostlanguage timethan if they had spent the first two years studying it instead of Esperanto. The most comprehensive experiment on the Paderborn method was done by Prof. [[Helmar Frank]], indeedof withthe gain[[University of itPaderborn]]'s Institute of Pedagogic Cybernetics, from which the method gets its name.
The effectiveness of this method was empirically noticed in different studies of the last century.<ref name = bollettinoUfficiale>[http://jespako.blogspot.com/2011/11/repost-international-language-known-as.html Official bulletin of Italian Ministry for Public Education, 122nd year, Rome, May 25 - June 1, 1995, No. 21-22]. Contains a large number of studies and experiments ([http://parracomumangi.altervista.org/BollettinoUfficiale.pdf original in Italian])</ref> Anyway the first scientifically accurate experiment was done by Prof. [[Helmar Frank]], of the [[University of Paderborn]]'s Institute of Pedagogic Cybernetics, scientifically proving the method's efficacy; his study gave the name to this method.
