(A video link to a class by Michele is below in one of the comments…)
Bryce your comment needs to be a blog post here because you have used a word to describe a quality that we totally must have in comprehensible input. It is a great word that I want to celebrate. It describes exactly what the goal of all PQA, stories and readings is. Thank you Bryce! The Word of the Month on this blog, folks, is automaticity.
Right on. That’s it. In addressing John’s post on parents who don’t get it, like the kid in your comment below, it is the ideal word. If we can get parents still stuck in the twentieth century to get what this word really means, we would have the battle won. Automaticity is a function of unconscious processing of language. Need I say more? Is this word a perfect Krashen word or what? Can you tell I like your word, Bryce?
Here is Bryce’s comment:
I just had a bright kid ask me today if he could take the test on the unit because he had read all of the stories in the packet and knows he could pass the test. I need to convince him that it is not about just passing a test. it is about automaticity – getting so many repetitions that the language becomes completely effortless.
The thing is we have been having fun, but he is starting to zone out of the banter and kidding and stories. He is a junior in a class of mainly freshmen (level I). I guess I got some splainin’ to do. Sigh.