Robert reports on a recent RT workshop with Jason Fritze, the RT master, and we say a big thank you to both of them! I know that RT is on all of our to-do lists, and this Report from the Field may help us all get a little closer to reaching our RT goals: Hi Ben – […]
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A group member asks: …where can I find ammo on the blog that has to do with why forcing output does not lead to acquisition?… Any ideas?
I was talking with one our AP’s today who is bright and actually sat in on the classes I did with Krashen here last year. She gets it. She was ALL OVER the jGR and I sent her a copy of that and then added the following: Gabriella the rubric I sent could be used
Here is more of the conversation between the Structured Input person at the U of Maine (comments in black) and skip (comments in blue). The first article is here: https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/12/09/structured-input/ Kathleen, Thank you for your ideas and for adding to the discussion. I feel so strongly about the need to discuss the “how” of second
Another series of emails, the third such collection, among the Latinists, but it applies to all of us. It is about Jeff’s organizing himself against attacks by ignorant people, but there is also a valuable thread about reading in here as well. There are lots of little gold nuggets in here. Jeff starts the exchanges
The essence of pop up grammar in R and D is to simply say, “X means ____ “. If a kid asks something about X and Gammar Man inside of us wants to go off on X, calling it an indirect object pronoun (big no-no to use the grammar term), we stifle all that knowledge
Robert gave a nice rundown of some terms that are thrown around a lot in language circles. Below he explains these terms to Chris, who right now is the kid enjoying challenging the emperors on their clothes or lack thereof as he works on a master’s thesis comparing terms like the ones below to what
A U-Maine French professor wrote a text on input that caught skip’s attention, who shared it with me. My opinion is that this professor would fail badly in secondary schools, and that she likely reaches a lot less of her four percenter dominated college classes than she may think with this approach. I’m sorry but I laughed – I couldn’t
Heh heh. I just keep coming up with these annoying acronyms. Here’s another one – sabrina’s Writing Idea, or sWI. It is an excellent idea and easily put in place just by extending a story class by one day so thank you Sabrina: One thing I started doing last year on the second semester with my French 2
Chris needs answers from the group: Ben, I was thinking, I could use some definitions of some terms we throw around. We obviously know what somebody means when they say CI or TPRS but, I was wondering if we could get some definitions for some other terms. I’m going to ask you a question here
I had asked David to write out a description of his plan with examples just to make it more clear. The original discussion a week ago was here: https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/12/01/embedded-reading-activity/ dRP (David’s Reading Plan): Day 1: 1. Select or create a story script using 2 or 3 new structures. 2. Give the students a handout of
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