Non-Romanized Alphabet
From Alisa who teaches both Spanish and Hebrew in Chicago. Hers is an important question and maybe someone in the group can suggest a possible direction, although the questioner herself is a world expert in the field, but in the
FCR Questions
From Jonathan: Ben- Got a few questions to throw out to the PLC, re: FCR (Free Choice Reading): 1) Do you use FCR @ the beginning of class on a daily basis? 2) If so, for how long? (include how long class time is) 3) What
Report from the Field – Jenny Goldszmidt
It's interesting to me that some in our group are having success with the Big CI Book and others with ANATS and ANATTY, since they are different, the first one still retaining elements of TPRS/CI and the second ones being
NTCI vs. PBI
Should I call what I do NTCI or Proficiency Based Instruction (PBI)? That's all it is about
Parent Letter Request
I know that on this site we have beginning of the year parent letters about what we do in our classrooms but it is so full of pages that I can't find one. If anyone has one that they are
NTCI vs. TPRS
The purpose in NTCI is not to teach words from lists but to teach language from images. This keeps the focus of the learner on the language as a whole, and not on pieces of the language so that the
Study
Dr. Lynch at Texas A&M wants to do a study with members of this group and we need some participants: "Dear PLC: I am seeing volunteers to fill out a survey regarding your perceptions and experiences using NTCI. The survey will require
OWI Question
Hey Ben - Q. We made a OWI; the character was a potato. So all through the first questions I asked, Est-elle grande ou petite, etc., because pomme de terre is feminine. Then when we named it it turned
Question
Q. Hi Ben! I am a second-year Spanish teacher. In graduate school, I studied and trained in TPRS methods with a professor whose pedagogy was centered on comprehensible input in language acquisition. I am lucky to have had her! I admire
Card Talk Option
This is from Anne Matava: Hi Ben - In my 2nd and 3rd year classes we have hit on something fun with Card Talk. I had them draw something they did over the summer on their cards. We have started