Angie Dodd has brought to our attention something that invites – if not demands -some kind of response. If not us, then who? Angie shares: Hi Ben – Should we respond to this somehow? It’s from a sales pitch for Middlebury Interactive Languages courses: http://middleburyinteractive.com/digital-courses/world-language-learning/world-language-learning-pedagogical-approach?utm_source=Pardot_WLLearning a new language isn’t easy but that doesn’t mean instruction […]
If you are feeling lazy and just want to work from a script next week (see TPRS in a Year! for how to do that) just go here: http://www.trippsscripts.com/#!NEW-Story-Script-Fly-in-my-Soup/c1uxc/565fab6d0cf212bd6be3aed6
I appreciate that over the past year or two the focus of this community, while remaining fully on how to get better at CI instruction, has also moved into consciously working on furthering our mental health and keeping simplicity at the forefront of our efforts with CI. When we remember the role of a tranquil spirit
Bob Patrick continues: Let me address the edges of “impure CI”. This is not criticism. This is what we all contend with. “using more and more spoken Latin” Surprisingly, this may have little to do with CI and may work against it. This is the tantalizing temptation of spoken Latin intensives that happen each summer
This exchange was recently posted to Latin Best Practices: Jocelyn wrote: As far as what is “impure CI” – that is a good question – one that I think needs an answer by someone better versed in the method than I. I guess I consider myself an “impure CI” user because while I am using more
From Craig West: https://t.co/vmfkBKlw6S Thought the PLC might enjoy this and it’s potential for use in CI classrooms. Craig
From Keri Biron in Connecticut: Hi Ben, I am writing because, if possible, I would love to be able to observe another TPRS teacher in action! I was talking about this with my assistant principal and he said that if I could find someone to observe then they would give me the time to do
http://matadornetwork.com/pulse/worlds-spoken-languages-single-beautiful-infographic/
FVR works, of course, but in my opinion not in ten minute chunks in classrooms. SSR does work in ten minute chunks in classrooms. So I have been doing SSR for those ten minutes to start my classes. The FVR books are really expensive. They often contain very complex, late acquired, language. The pictures distract. It
From Tina: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RN4TzPUKULFfIN-bHSHXijgVTKakDyLjVjT83Nmxrt0/edit?usp=sharing
When all the back posts (almost 6,000) and comments (44,000) are protected, the appearance of the blog will return to normal. We can only protect 250 at a time so it won’t be done for awhile. But in the meantime we can read new stuff and some comments. I know it’s weird. Give it a
