Our PLC member Jeanette Borich in Iowa has written an important article about what we do. Published in Education Week in 2012, it got picked up on a heavily visited ESL site by Larry Ferlazzo. Chris Stolz in Vancouver told me about it:
(Teaching Foreign Language Through Storytelling, Education Week, April 02, 2012)
A veteran teacher takes an instructional leap, eschewing traditional memorization-heavy methods of teaching a second language, and offers some takeaways from the experience.
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2012/04/02/tln_borich.html?tkn=VTODjE%2B%2F3VKF%2BVqAF6OflgthfTgIt1M%2FmmET&intc=es
Here is the link to the article on Ferlazzo’s site: