Applaudissez! Bob has been named Teacher of the Year for the Southern region. We are lucky to have him as a regular reader and contributor to the group. Next year at ACTFL, the five regional conference winners will compete for ACTFL Teacher of the Year. We wish Bob luck. His stance on CI being so strong, […]
Discussion Limitations of this study. Although this study adds to the growing body of research that supports comprehensible input-based methods, there are limitations to this study. First, this study consisted of rather small sample sizes, only two comparison groups, one with 29 students and one with 30 students. This small sample size may not be
Methods and Procedures Participants The participants in this study consist of two groups of Spanish 1 students in a suburban public middle school in northeast Ohio. This school, consisting of 7th and 8th graders, has a population in the 900 range. In that, 4.0% is black, non-Hispanic; 91.1% White; 21.7% economically disadvantaged; and 12.7%
Empirical Research/Previous Comparative Research While the current body of empirical research on comprehensible-input based instruction such as TPRS is low, it is growing. Studies have been conducted that show that the use of comprehensible input-based methods is effective in language acquisition. A study conducted by Beniko Mason found that story-telling is as effective as more
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I haven’t yet met Chris personally but I can tell from our communication that he is a man on a mission. That is a good thing. During this past year he handled family responsibilities and professional duties and threw in a master’s thesis on top of that. So he has asked us for some feedback on his
A group member sent this question in: My school has chosen me to lead our department in training the FL teachers to teach IB b/c our school is going wall to wall IB next year.They are sending me to this FLIBS (The Florida League of International Baccalaureate Schools, Inc.) training. I’m wondering if it will
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We are making it through April, which is big news in itself. To various relative degrees, we are all hurting, certainly. Teaching does that. I think it was Hazrat Inayat Kahn who said that spirituality is right adjustment to other people. I hope that includes teens. April saw us bust open the SBG topic, led by
From Jim Tripp: Ben, could you post this for me? I’m in a bit of a crunch, deadlines fast approaching. I’m planning a trip for next Spring or Summer with a group of students. Does anyone have any thoughts on good companies to travel with? I’ve been looking at Explorica (great perks for group leaders)
From Ben Lev in CA. Everybody have at it. It could make the difference in a job or not. Suggest anything – Ben doesn’t have to use it: Hi Ben, Maybe people in the PLC can help me with this. For financial reasons I have to look for a new classroom job. There are a
Group I have a very serious request. I am getting ready to try to take all the most important content on this site over the past seven years and make some videos explaining it with an eye to making it available to new people. In that interest, I ask you to just toss out some
Here is a Report from the Field from Greg, who started TPRS/CI only about ten weeks ago, and has never been to a workshop: I have to share some good news from an observation today – especially some great reactions from an administrator. I’ve had several good days since I started using CI, but today
