July 24, 2021

Happy Ones

When we teach according to the standard of Communication and the research that says that Comprehensible Input is the way human beings acquire languages, we open up for ourselves in the act of teaching each day a wide expanse of possibilities. What possibilities? Happy ones. If something occurs during our instruction that is funny, we […]

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Out of the Doldrums

When children come to us to learn the languages that we teach them, they come to us in trust. But we do not always honor that trust. We do that unintentionally of course – but the result is the same. Why is this? It is because of the way we think about curriculum. We think

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