Teach Students to Think in the Foreign Language

http://foreignlanguagecoach.blogspot.com/2009/09/thinking-in-foreign-language.html

Another huge part of my philosophy is that language learners should learn with as little use of the native language as possible. Pictures and realia should be used as much as possible to help the learners establish a mental path from concept to the second language as opposed to taking a detour through their first language and then translating to the second language. When they begin to start speaking in realtime, they will find that it is much too difficult to speak quickly and efficiently if they are unable to think in the foreign language.