I would like to poll the group on the question of translation back into written, not spoken, L1 in our vPQA slide presentations. What do people think? Julie has no L1 translation on her vPQA slides. I wrote to Andrew: …I don’t know how I feel about the translation. I’m like 55% for it and […]
This is from Ben Lev out there in CA: At the community college we are considering a change of textbook. It’s a crazy thing, but maybe someone has a least-worst textbook to suggest? We currently use Vistas (like Descubre). We’ve seen Dicho y Hecho, and we’ll see Pearson. Is there a “better” series that comes
Power of Circling Alisa Shapiro has said: “Circling incorporates all the other language embedded in the question, and helps gets those pieces/chunks acquired, too. This is particularly critical for novice/beginners. The circled questions include all kinds of morphology and syntax, plus students get tons of modeling of the phonetic system. The implicit instruction that gets
Craig West has re-affirmed my faith in mankind with this comment: Hey Ben have you heard of http://www.haikudeck.com? It’s a super easy way to build visual presentations with open source images so no royalties to worry about. It takes lots of steps out of building a presentation as well I think it would be a
