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Michele Whaley had been developed an online course for Russian. I am not sure where she is with that now. It was a rather grueling-sounding process. I think her employer said they expect 1 hour of online course content to take like 70 hours to create or something!
I have thought that story listening would be a great way to make an online course simple enough to create; much less prep time required. Videos of stories made comprehensible, with reading material provided.
Alice Ayel uses story listening for language sessions. I’ve used her videos for sub work.
There is so much great stuff available. In my view, it all comes down to creating messages that our students understand and want to hear and then read because they know they can.
So if we used Story Listening to tell our kids a tale, then we read and discuss it next. We talk, then we read what we talked about. They don’t have to talk. They don’t have to write. The focus must be collective on the things that happen. That takes the focus off the language and onto the message.
We can’t use stories to teach words. Why use stories to teach words when we can use words to teach stories? One reduces language and the other expands it. We can expand it to the stars.
“Why use stories to teach words when we can use words to teach stories?”
That is worth repeating. And, related to that, Why use stories to teach tenses when we can use tenses to teach stories?
Thank you Nathaniel. I love the statement about tenses. I think the whole thing has gotten out of hand. We need to get back to our roots in Blaine’s original work.