Teaching a language without using comprehensible input is insulting to the magnificence of the human brain, which can process and decode and implement thousands of rules of language without even needing to use its conscious side – it’s all automatic. All that the brain needs to acquire a language is to hear the language spoken […]
jGR works better for me with Three and Done. I know that it is my own way of holding kids accountable, and I certainly don’t want to say it is the best way, although I am very happy with how it works. I did mention Three and Done before here (links below), and my appreciation of how
This term – or something like it (countdown?) – was recently used here, but I can’t find the comments. Is that the same as wait time? I’m trying to get clarification on this term, which I haven’t heard before. Laurie was in on that discussion, I do remember that. She was talking about the period
Reading through the comments sometimes reveals keys to problems that we don’t even know we have. For example, in talking about reading, Dave said this yesterday: …I personally keep [choral reading] to under 10% of our total reading/translating. I think that, especially for slower language processors, it can interfere with them negotiating meaning by turning
