Snowball Language Acquisition Method (SLAM)
Abstract
This project hosts the official Version 1.0 document of the Snowball Language Acquisition Method (SLAM), an original pedagogical framework developed by Mehran Hajizadeh. SLAM prioritizes productive skills, phrase-level mastery, and contextualized L1-to-L2 transfer to reduce fossilized errors and improve grammatical accuracy. This upload serves as a public prior publication record.
Fields of Study & Subjects
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Language Acquisition and Education
Publication details
- Journal / source
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
- Publication date
- 25 January 2026
- Document type
- Preprint