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7 thoughts on “All That Grammar”
I think that you should let the teacher know. Maybe. Actually, I would talk about it to my friends and here and then I would keep quiet because of the motto “attraction rather than promotion” that I try to live by. Meaning, I don’t stuff my beliefs down anyone’s throat, I just try to live in an attractive way (though lately I have been a little unpleasant–maybe it’s this Alaska cold dark thing).
At the same time I think that this is tricky because what we do does not just affect ourselves. So, is it our duty to proselytize and spread the effectiveness of CI/TPRS?
I say no bc of the huge resistance that has always been there. That is why I only want to talk to and work with and dream with people who have already drunk the Kool Aid. It is so unpleasant otherwise. We don’t owe those people anything.
Besides, even with all the discussion and growth here, I am really only happy in the midst of a good story with a strong group of kids whose hearts are open. Then it all becomes worthwhile. How many of our colleagues want the special sort of bliss that happens in those good classes?
Most of our colleagues just want to use the book – it may not be in their nature to think beyond being a good deliverer-of-instructional-services. There are many 4%ers in our profession – and not too many dreamers. So why should we proselytize?
Better to dream, to laugh, to feel our languages in our bodies, where they belong! Better to taste the pearls that form the necklaces that are our languages! Better to drink deep, to get drunk, as our poet brother Charles reminds us:
http://poetry.eserver.org/enivrez-vous.html
Rather than saying that we drank the Kool-Aid, I prefer to say that we swallowed the red pill
And then, there are those who swallow the red pill and want to go back into their artificial womb and hide in the textbook.
Out of the grammar questions, she missed 60% of them – all in context with multiple choice responses.
That was the problem. You didn’t ask “What is the the second person plural of the simple past?” You put the grammar in context. She wasn’t ready for that.
For shame. (I don’t know how to make the symbol for for tongue in cheek.)
In my Spanish 2 final the kids were freaking out because they thought they would have to conjugate as that is what they did last year. SO ANNOYING. This is me putting in my transfer.
I actually don’t think that she’d have been able to even answer the “what’s the second person plural of adiuvare” question. I’ve taught like that in the past and apart from the 4%ers they all mix up the things horribly and produce mistakes that weren’t there in the first place. Sharing with the teacher won’t make him change his mind, I guess. I on the contrary am very happy you shared that 🙂