This is a repost from a few years ago: Most of us are fundamentally frightened of this entire process called comprehensible input. It is just too foreign to our natures as teachers trained in the old way. We have been trained in ways that contradict the new ideas that will shape foreign language education in this […]
Wilhelm Reich talked about the idea of muscular armour – the expression of the personality in the way the body moves. He was controversial, of course, but his base idea that a lot of the human experience is connected to how people defend themselves in social settings (classrooms, for example) has in my view not
Another repost from 2014: This discussion about targeting certain expressions so that our students can do certain things (order a meal, etc.) in the TL raises questions about the nature of language. What is the nature of language and what is it’s purpose? Most would answer that the nature of language is to allow people
