Robert wrote this as a comment within the general recent thread on output, but I think we should make it into an article for ease of reference. I love the Excursus thing. Is that like a kind of car? When I think of the assessment in terms of Advanced Proficient Basic Below Basic Far Below Basic […]
Here is the story script, by Sabrina, from the two recent videos by her that we’ve been discussing. I like the little nod to Blaine at the end of the script: Le coureur sort avec elle/lui – goes out with her/him sortent ensembles – go out together la mate – checks her out/ eyes
I know I just said that I would try to limit the articles this week so we can rest and catch up, but this one article is worth publishing so here it is: VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign Feb. 28 — the first pontiff to do so in
This is our Charlotte in Canada, not Germany. It’s a wonderful report from the field: Hi Ben – Yesterday I had a longer phone call from a mom who wanted to know what I had “done” to her daughter. That would normally send my heart racing a bit, but she quickly continued to tell me
A report from skip from a recent CI workshop in Portland, Maine given by Francis J. Troyan: Hey Ben, I have now been to two 1.5 hour sessions of the “Teaching with Comprehensible Input”. It has been very interesting. I have these observations: 1. The first article he gave us by Lee+VanPatten (attached) advocates a
Here is the link to the second part of that class: https://vimeo.com/59204047 My comments: I see that the artist is working on transparencies for later use on the overhead projector. Perfect. It could be done on regular paper if you have a document camera and I like to hide the artist’s work on the back
Sabrina has given me persmission to put up a class, broken up into two videos, of one of her recent classes. Here is the first link: https://vimeo.com/59206758 My comments are below. Others please comment in the comment fields below: When you ask them what grade the want and say Il faut travailler/You must work (saying those
I had asked Charlotte for a more detailed description of what she does with her brilliant new idea of a Wall Zoo to use as a bail out move to start the year (this could be powerful especially with younger kids to start a year) anytime Here is the link to Charlotte’s first article on the Wall
We are all well aware of the supreme importance of the natural process that we call the Silent Period in language acquisition. But we teach in schools. There is always an expectation that speech output occur before the rose is not yet fully formed within l’abri de sa chambre verte*. We are told by people who
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I’m gonig to stick this post on this front page for a few days so we can all get a chance to read and study it before it scrolls out. We need to figure out how it fits/blends, etc. with our current use of jGR. This will take time, of course, as many of us
In this article Chris comments on PQA and on a term made by James – BSITL – Bullshit in the Target Language: When I first heard of “PQA” I took it literally and I asked repetitious, boring “personalized” questions to and about students. If it wasn’t for being mentored by Ben, that’s what I’d still
Check this out. It will be a regular part of my new routine: www.imtranslator.com I will publish an article about an expanded weekly schedule – one that takes more like two weeks to get through everything I want to do with a story – later, but basically instead of the Three Steps forming my weekly routine now,
