I got a good question from a colleague in her
“…fourth year of teaching but my first using TPRS. I’m not sure how I stumbled across your blog, but I can’t tell you how encouraging and insightful it has been!…I am teaching in a private school and am not certified, but I am looking at various graduate programs and was wondering if you knew of any that are forming foreign language instructors in the Language Acquisition Model. I took one class that presented TPR – not even TPRS – as “one model” of foreign language instruction, but I was hoping someone somewhere is doing things…umm… correctly?”
Thank you so much for your time!
I told her that in my opinion the work of teaching for (real) acquisition vs. (fake) learning is being done by educators who are actually teaching in elementary, middle, and high schools, trying stuff out, and learning like that, with their boots on.
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe someone has some information about something happening in universities re: acquisition models that may be in use in various teacher training programs. I asked Dr. Krashen and he might respond on this as well.