If you are starting free writes now, try to follow each of these rules: 1. Write without stopping for 10 minutes. 2. When time is up, count the number of words you wrote and enter the total in your bar graph. 3. No English words in the story except for names. 4. Keep the sentences
If it is true that language instruction in the U.S. is broken – across the board in general – then let’s not pretend (just because teachers are trying to make the research around comprehensible input work) that it’s working. My guess is that most language teachers are still mostly teaching using a 50 year old
Hi Ben, Your posts give me strength and make me stand taller. Solving the problems in our schools can only be done when we believe in ourselves. On your forum, you talk about our real individual problems, not to be solved but because they need to be seen. It’s about being seen, about being heard.
