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The '''Paderborn Method for language teaching''', also known as '''Paderborn Method''' or '''Paderborn Model''' is a method for teaching a foreign languages, ideated for children. It consists in teaching a simple language ([[Esperanto]]), and 2 years later teaching the second language. Many studies confirmed that, having learnedlearning a complete and easy propedeutical language, helps in learning a more difficult one with no lost time, indeed with gain of it.

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 Italian OFFICIAL BULLETIN of MINISTRY for PUBLIC EDUCATION YEAR 122°, ROME, MAY 25th - JUNE 1st 1995, N. 21-22]. Contains high number of studies and experiments ([http://parracomumangi.altervista.org/BollettinoUfficiale.pdf original in Italian])</ref> anywayand the scientific proof was given by Professor [[Helmar Frank]] at Institute of Pedagogic Cybernetics in the [[University of Paderborn]] (Germany), and this study gave the name to this method.

==History of the method==

Many adults who learnt Esperanto noticed that they could understand better the grammar of their own mother tongue and foreign languages, thanks to this simple language with transparent [[Esperanto grammar|grammar]]. So they started to think if such a language could have a propedeutical value in language teaching.

=== Other experiments===