In October of 2009 Krashen started writing about a term he called “Transparency”. Is the feeling of effortless communication in L2 – flying – that we sometimes experience with our classes anything like this term from Krashen? I am just going to cut and paste from a few of Krashen’s emails from that period in […]
I thought that Chris’ Wants To Be script would be a huge success, and he thought so too, but it wasn’t. Let’s try to open up a thread about this, if we can. We can try to figure out what happened. It can be a very valuable learning experience. Here is Chris’ wonderfully honest follow
This is a significant post from Chris in that he attacks full on the concept of starting stories as a beginner. What is important is that the story he wrote came from his own knowledge of his class, is based on what vocabulary they knew, what their own interests as a class were, etc. It’s
