Ben Slavic

NTCI is a System

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,

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Sandbox – 2

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

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Big Scam

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

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Julia's Project – 1

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

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