We had a thread here recently about talking to the kids about why we teach this way. I remember saying that I personally prefer to avoid lengthy discussions about the theory of CI. Rather, this from Melissa today is a great example of something we should tell them. I’ll put it in the Beginning the Year category. Here it is:
… at the beginning of the year we calculated how many hours a child hears the language to 1 year old. I then showed them how many hours they would hear language in our class. This really helped many students understand….