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August 18, 2009
An encouraging start
Today I started my first day of school for the 09-10 year. I was encouraged because I did some TPR review and the students still remembered a lot of the words from last year. This is a lot different than my previous experiences in school where the students couldn’t remember what we did two weeks [...]
March 24, 2009
Great comment from Norm Veilleux
Here is a great comment from Ben Slavic’s Blog
Don’t remember where I read this, but it was by a biggie in the SLA world (VanPatten I think) who believed that learning styles do not apply to language acquisition. There is only one way to acquire language and that is by comprehending messages. Language acquisition is [...]
March 20, 2009
To correct or not?
Corrections have been something I have thought about lately. There is this part of me that wonders how much good it really does in terms of language acquisition. In my experience so far, I think that mostly it does little to nothing. The people that it may help are the 4%ers. So what does that [...]
March 18, 2009
Entering the 4th Quarter
Well, I am entering the 4th quarter of my first year of teaching. I must say that I feel like I have been through a lot. So much has changed and I now see the value of experience. It is something that really can’t be taught, but just has to happen.
I have known a lot [...]
March 12, 2009
The greatest obstacle in TPRS
This week I had a student teacher observe my class. It was wonderful to see someone who was interested in TPRS and how it worked. I am sure that I overwhelmed her with too much information. I can’t help it, I guess.
When I observed Ben Slavic’s class, I observed for a little bit and then [...]
March 2, 2009
We bring life
We bring life into the classroom. But we have to be careful how we do it. It must happen with CI and P. The CI is a little complicated. It involves going slow and then going slow some more. Taking time to let the brain acquire the language. The P is also a little complicated. [...]
March 2, 2009
CI and P
It is so amazingly simple. Almost too simple. As long as you have CI and P, you will acquire a language. That is so wonderful and scary at the same time. I get the CI part, but I struggle sometimes with the P. Finding out what they really like and turning it into repetetive CI.
Don’t [...]
