March 18, 2016

I will be out of New Delhi for the next nine days on spring break. See you all later and I do hope that we all get some great rest for the final push in April and May. We deserve it.

The new direction of this blog isn’t just away from boring SLA theory and the discussion of research. Its also away from its long held focus on using comprehensible input in the classroom. There is a bigger goal, one I forgot about in all the excitement about the CI. The new goal for me in

Angie describes below how to upload class video footage from an iPad to YouTube. I include it here to make it easy for people to load up in the comment fields video from their own classes. I publish these current four posts on Video Comments with great hope that this new option from Angie will

I’ve noticed that the more compelling my input, the faster I can speak to my students with their nearly full understanding. When my input is boring or merely kind of interesting (means it’s not all about them), I find that I have to speak more slowly.

I used to do FVR with the children’s books. It really didn’t work. The books had lots of really complex language in them that only native speaker kids could understand, and my students mainly just looked at the picture. So then I started doing SSR with the same text. Then after the 10′ SSR period