Q. It seems like such a simple thing – just talking to the kids. Why is it so difficult? A. Actually, I recently remembered that I used to just “talk to the kids” thirty years ago. I had forgotten that, but now I remember it. It was emotional to remember that I had once tried […]
Craig shares a website called wordsift.org: Just paste any text into the space there and it gives you options for analyzing the text: word clouds, word frequency, thesaurus, etc. It can be a quick way to review language from class stories, create quizzes and things like that.
Q. So the big problem is that we haven’t been really following what Dr. Krashen says? A. I would say that the big problem is that we haven’t been trusting that the kids will learn the language if we just speak to them naturally. Q. So should one then not even try to teach a
