We have agreed that we need to produce a primer for those who want to read about TPRS/CI so that they can understand that this work we promote is the new normal in language teaching.
I agree. It would be wonderful to just print off something from a hard link here and hand it to anyone who wants to read it.
There are two problems that have popped up since chill told us what happened last week with her employer in this article:
https://benslavic.com/blog/advice-needed-3/
Problem 1: there is too much stuff. We wouldn’t have a primer, we would have a 500 page book if we took all the information here and published it to explain what we do.
Problem 2: I am not up to the task of writing this primer. I feel too close to the information, if that makes sense.
Is there someone in this group who has the time to go through all the comments made in response to “Advice Needed” (chill’s original email to us from a few days ago) and to generally go through this site and cull out the best stuff?
The final document must be short, as well. Few people will read more than ten pages. Five might be too many.
Anyone? Buehler? Email me privately if you think you might be able to do this. In that way you won’t be committed but we can talk about making it happen between us. I don’t know how others feel, but I think it might be a good idea to entirely stop all conversations here and all publications of new articles until we get our primer. I feel it is that necessary.
I want that hard link up there. It could be a great boon to every one of us, not to mention a big time saver.