August 2, 2019

We all know that Krashen’s research says nothing about targeting vocabulary, but CI teachers do it in stories anyway in order to get the kids to learn the lists of words that they think are necessary to acquire a language. Why do it if it’s not necessary? Because they erroneously think that they need to

The biggest problem with TPRS has always been that they tell you try to use the novels too early, before all of your students have had enough auditory input to be able to properly read. When I say problem I mean “problem for me”. I’m sure there are many teachers for whom TPRS goes really