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Movie Talk from Ruth

Ruth Fleishman sent us this today and thank you Ruth! – Hi Ben – I’ve done a few “Watch & Discuss” (or whatever we are calling it) last year and this year. The discussion here on the blog and Eric’s video have given me some ideas to improve what I do. I just started one […]

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Chinese: A Description for Teachers of Other Languages – 2

Diane continues: Some terms: Pinyin: phonetic writing system developed in the 1950’s to show standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese characters; its goal was to help Chinese understand each other’s speech and standardize “Mandarin.” It’s very scientific – once you know what sound some letters represent, that’s the whole set of syllables available in Chinese: about

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MT Thoughts

My thoughts on MovieTalk change by the hour: I just don’t like the idea of presenting incomprehensible or partially comprehensible input to my students. It would be fine if we had 24/7 to teach them but we don’t. There is incomprehensibility that comes with MT, and that vagueness of the text to my students has

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Seismic Shift?

I think that two of the above statements in this thread on MovieTalk by two teachers who are new to this work, John and Laura, should be well noted: …as a teacher in his first year of teaching entirely with CI, I have found MT’s to be by far the most successful activity for me….

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