Maybe I can get a second agreement with Georgia on panel 13 – right now I am pretty much at odds with those folks:
Provide opportunities for learners to express personal meaning from the earliest stages of the program.
The image shows a child holding up a drawing of something with the subtitle “sharing personal information” in the target language.
Let me get this straight. The child hears the language for a few hours and all of a sudden is supposed to “share personal experiences” in the target language. I have a simple question. If it takes upwards of five years of hearing her first language before sharing it with others, how can she do this? Output is the result of literally thousands of hours of hearing AND COMPREHENDING a language. No way on panel 13.
Darn it. 2 and 12.