Our Alisa has already created a storybook collection in September with her 3rd and 4th graders. She sent me the collection which I share below. I feel that it is important to share here because we now have a great example of what many of us will be aiming to produce in the spring during […]
If anyone wants to present on ANATS, Greg shared this with us awhile ago and thanks Greg: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jk0yDZyZS_7RuTS11lybO8hR2awwuc9D1woCaFd98DM/edit#slide=id.g2a2aee8035_0_24
I just posted this a few months ago here but I am so passionate about the topic that I chose to post it again in case anyone missed it: Going. Going. Gone. The idea of novels is fading. We have worked too hard and for too many years to float those brick-like things. We have
The thing about TPRS was that not only were there too many rules, but also it required a certain type of personality. Since there was no real road map, or system, only certain teachers could handle it. On the other hand, non-targeted CI has no such confusing rules and, more importantly, is much more systemized,
A repost: So there are empty sandboxes and then there are sandboxes with (CI) sand in them, from which stories and all sorts of fun things emerge. How can this image be explored more deeply? Specifically, how can it be applied to teachers? Think of kids. What would happen on a real playground if a
More ammunition (from Diane Neubauer) for talking with admins who need help in understanding CI: Stephen-Krashen-summary-2 Stephen-Krashen-summary-2
The thought form “they won’t learn it unless I teach it” is a falsity in language acquisition. It is not true. Languages cannot be taught anymore than dreams can be consciously controlled. You can’t think your way to mastery of a language. The language acquisition process – the real stuff – requires that the process
When we think about our roles as language teachers, the most important aspect of our work is to love our children and give them hope in what they can do in life. In my opinion – and I’m not trying to sell anything with this next thought – the means that we pay back the
This post is from 2009. I republish it here because it is core to the kind of things I want to discuss here in this PLC. It just seems to me odd that if a good conversation is, as it says below, “divorced from any planned outcome”, then why are we so intent on targeting and analyzing and working
Looks like the funding for this study may be there, and TAMU has just approved it, so I’m reposting this. Julia needs just one more volunteer to get this into action. We already have precious few such studies on non-targeted so please if you are willing, contact her: Julia Lynch is a researcher at the
This is from my ANATS book for Loly who is working with dictée in her classes this week: Dictée: This is a powerful metacognitive tool that helps students attempt to match up the sounds of the language with what they can write. Again, we do not get a lot of language gains with this activity,
