Here is a blog from a week ago but with some additional insights from the writer below in italics. This is chill’s mentor and a career professional of 38 years who is just now finding out about TPRS: If I were still teaching, I would feel all re-inspired and energized from all your ideas. I watched […]
I’m listening to Carla Bruni’s L’Amoureuse right now. I had a shock. I thought about what a terrible loss that sometimes kids get turned off to stuff like this in the name of grammar study. This song, French songs, French film, French poetry, French novels are uplifting me and Paul and Diana in a way
I must remember that not all kids, nor teachers for that matter, are cut out for conversing in L2. Many have not learned the art of conversation in English yet. I can’t fault the kids. Teachers? That is another matter altogether. Their JOB is to converse in L2 with their kids. There was somebody who
It is an incredible thing to hear, just before class as the students are quieting down, their genius, fun, humor in the form of their discussion, which all kind of fades out and disappears when the lesson for that day is one of mere analysis of the language. However, when we start a story, when
