Laurie over on her blog has really put the discussion about scripting stories into a very fine and clear perspective. I duplicate those as three blog posts here with her permission. I will then post two texts written by Anne Matava on scripting stories, to give perspective and fullness to the discussion. Here is the […]
“You muddled it!” is not a term that I would want applied to me. And yet, I just had the opportunity to read a landmark new study on the importance of SLOW in teaching using comprehensible input, and how “You muddled it!” is indeed a term that may apply to me as a teacher. In a word, this
This is taken from comments made on the blog post “Go Willingly”. I wanted to create a category – called “Humor” – for it so that I could remember that I don’t have to be a clown in my classroom: The smallest things, looking at a coffee, can be hilariously funny. We miss that in
As Krashen says in Foreign Language Education – The Easy Way: …the system of grammar, vocabulary, etc. that needs to be acquired is too complex to be learned consciously….(p. 7). In other words, there are too many combinations of bricks for the mind to build the house of acquisition by using the medium of analysis
