I found this absurd conversation between two teachers online in a language discussion group for teachers. Who the teachers are doesn’t matter. Rather, I bring it to the attention of our group because it displays a very common mindset among language teachers that kids whine and don’t hand in work due to faults in their […]
We must stay conscious of what is really happening here. It is the end of one way of doing things on the AP and the beginning of another. A deep and dramatic paradigm shift that has been decades in coming has finally reached its tipping point. It’s been coming since 1963 – search the article
Lead and Gold It is springtime, and the “Likedeeler” have problems. A huge fleet with two new ships is searching for them. On the thirteenth of March ships sailed from Lübeck. They met ships from Hamburg and formed a huge fleet. This huge fleet is now sailing to East Frisia. The Hanseatic League wants to
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Blei und Gold Es ist Frühling, und es gibt Probleme für die Likedeeler. Eine große Flotte mit zwei neuen Schiffen sucht sie. Am 13. März sind Schiffe von Lübeck losgesegelt. Sie trafen Schiffe von Hamburg und bildeten sich zu einer großen Flotte. Diese große Flotte segelt jetzt nach Ostfriesland. Die Hanse will die Likedeeler ganz
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…… And The Whole World’s Foe Götz has to think a long time about what Pitt has said. He thinks that the rich man is not acting justly if he does not help poor people. But the Victual Brother is not acting justly either, if he steals and kills, even if he gives part of
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Drew requested a list of best Matava scripts for levels 1 and 2. If you wish, and have three to five really good ones that you could rank in order of effectiveness in the classroom at whatever level, pls. comment below. I would bet that the best scripts are the same for many of us. My
… und aller Welt Feind Götz muss lange an das denken, was Pitt sagt. Er denkt, der reiche Mann handelt nicht gerecht, wenn er den armen Leuten nicht hilft. Der Vitalienbruder handelt aber auch nicht gerecht, wenn er stiehlt und tötet, auch wenn er einen Teil von seiner Beute an die armen Leute gibt. Er
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Chris asked about sharing some unfinalized scripts with the group in response to a general call by me for more materials to replace or supplement what we have already in the TPRS world. In that regard, I feel that there is now going to be a great surge of quality materials out there for some reason.
Another thread that I forgot to mention in the April update is that of creating our own materials that we can then write and test within the group. Nothing in the TPRS world, for example, comes even close to the story scripts written and tested for years now by our own Anne Matava and Jim
I would like to share a few interesting points made in recent discussion with Annemarie. Of special note and usefulness to us is the Abbey Parks comment: Annemarie: I had a question regarding gestures. Does anyone out there in the TPRS world use actual ASL for their gestures? It kind of makes sense. I watched a video
When Annick Chen and I presented to our school’s math department on comprehensible input/gesturing the other day, I was circling “Annick wants candy”. After a few minutes, a sour member of the math department said in French, “Je veux dormir” and kind of put her head down in an attempt to get a laugh that never
