I spent many years working hard at trying to make sure that things got funny in stories. I would think to myself of ways to bring in a certain celebrity, or some fact about a kid, so that, if it weren’t a home run story, it would at least be at least a single or […]

This is one to read carefully and then re-read a few more times: I haven’t dropped the iFLT page, and I don’t plan to, but not because I am learning that much, but because I am not going to stop pushing for best practices. I agree with Dr. Krashen we need to come together to

Many in our PLC are presenting workshops these days. Here is a template we can work with from Alisa: Proposal For [name of school] Reimagining and Re-implementing [name of language] Instruction: Teacher Training by I commit to helping [name of school] realize its goal of improving [name of language] proficiency outcomes for all its students. I hope

  Whenever an actor needs to go to another location in a story, there is potential for a humorous mode of travel and a brief comical interlude in class that takes place in the target language. The means of conveyance can be described in words, or in certain classes where the focus is strong enough,

I was struck by something Alisa wrote here about a month ago, that the entire reading thing that we do at the middle and high school level can’t be done that way at the elementary level. That right there is a big thing to say and may account in part for the lack of valid

I made it through the last fifteen years doing whatever TPRS is in a kind of cloud. It made me crazy enough to write books about it in order to figure it all out because I learn by writing. I’m starting to see why now. Without Anne Matava’s story scripts, I never would have made

How odd that the power of the old guard and their influence on administrators, in the face of the actual research, is enough to keep teachers down, in a defensive posture, on their toes. The teachers are only trying their best in a failed system to employ comprehensible input in their classes. In the movie

Josh reports in from Vietnam: Hi Ben – You requested bios from PLC members so here is mine. After 12 successful years working at some of the biggest technology companies in Silicon Valley I opted for simplicity, meditation, and a more meaningful life.  What was originally just a sabbatical in Southeast Asia, I discovered his love for

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Suzanne TenBroek said here recently: …it just seems like people are arguing over how to cook the turkey, when in reality we all know that the turkey needs to be cooked before it’s eaten. It’s just a matter of whether or not we want to brine it, then roast it, or deep fry, or whatever…..

Over recent weeks on the iFLT FB page, some of the people who write in support of nontargeted  CI are having their comments deleted. The latest deletion there was of a comment from PLC member Jeanette Borich , who has published articles on comprehensible input (see the Primers section above) and who last week wrote the

Blaine’s brilliant idea to create the storytelling method out of the clay of Krashen’s research was met head on by school policy, esp. by the targeting of lists of words, in the way textbooks are designed. This was a high speed collision between his new car and the old traditional car. Which car won?  Judging