Here is a link to an article about a CI/TPRS teacher in Australia, discussing how comprehensible input language instruction has informed and transformed this teacher’s work: https://www.victorharbortimes.com.au/story/3564600/port-elliot-indonesian-teacher-celebrated/?cs=1537#slide=1
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I am happy to announce that my next Ultimate CI Book 1 training will begin Jan. 8th and go every Saturday until Feb. 12th. Find the information here: https://www.benslavic.com/product/ultimate-ci-book-1-six-weeks-training/ Hope to see you then! Ben
There is very little that we can depend on in this new way of teaching. It is a scary proposition to retool to align our instruction with the research. None of us is an expert. We are all just feeling our way forward here in the beginning days of this true paradigm shift in our
For those who have done the UCI trainings, don’t forget that we have our first “family reunion” for those who have been trained in the method over the past year. It will be via Zoom at 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. MT this Saturday, Oct. 2. We’ll talk about what has been working and what needs
Note to reader: I have collected 24 articles addresses various aspects of CI instruction. They will be published under separate cover in these Patreon pages, but I also wanted to feature them here as blog posts over the next few weeks simply because they are so impressive and therefore useful to we who are waging
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This information is for those teachers who have done the Ultimate CI Book 2 training. The instructions on the Word Chunk Team Game have been changed in the book to: 1. Teacher says a single word, a group of words, or even a sentence. Groups of 3 or 4 students put their heads together to
How could all of us so badly miss the point about why we teach languages? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCmdhQLtwag
I got this nice message and drawing – click on link below – from a teacher who took the Ultimate CI Book I training this summer: Hello Ben. I hope you are well. I just wanted to share that the tableaux have been coming out nicely in my classes. As expected the kids love it.
I got a question: Q. I have a third year student who is a great student. She reads on an upper intermediate level. Listening comprehension is a mid-intermediate level. She is an EXCELLENT reader in English and LOVES to read. She tackles her favorite English book in Spanish and is not afraid to work at
As language programs in American schools continue to crumble, more and more private language schools – actual businesses – will appear in American society. These language schools will exist for one reason – they will help American companies grow profits from a better fit into the global economy. Random education of children in languages will
I always felt that something was wrong with me because I didn’t plan. They told me to plan but I didn’t. They made me feel like I was doing something wrong and so I must be a bad teacher. Now I see the truth – for me. Planning a language class is so far out
I am compiling a set of documents that, when finished, will become a book entitled In Defense of CI. Taken almost exclusively from posts from my blog over the past 15 years, it will be designed to offer CI teachers educated responses to those annoying and uninformed attacks about how we teach from helicopter parents,
