August 4, 2011

The Muddler Hypothesis

“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

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Brick House 4

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

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