I’ve been working with Marcel who is a teacher of English in Morocco with primarily intermediate students from Russia. We may be nearing some kid of much-needed breakthrough in reaching this population of language learners. I think we’re in the process of “purifying” some of the research on this. I won’t go into it here. […]
Where did the fears around building stories come from? They originated in the early days of TPRS when Blaine Ray could and did create a story with seemingly no effort, but nobody else could. Any TPRS old-timers reading this know exactly what I mean. It got so bad that whenever people showed up at a
I just had a sad thought about those AP type students we teach. We teach them all sorts of boring stuff, the stuff that they “need to know” for the AP exam, and then expect them to be able to enjoy the language learning experience. But how can they enjoy our AP classes when all
