FVR works, of course, but in my opinion not in ten minute chunks in classrooms. SSR does work in ten minute chunks in classrooms. So I have been doing SSR for those ten minutes to start my classes. The FVR books are really expensive. They often contain very complex, late acquired, language. The pictures distract. It […]
From Tina: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RN4TzPUKULFfIN-bHSHXijgVTKakDyLjVjT83Nmxrt0/edit?usp=sharing
When all the back posts (almost 6,000) and comments (44,000) are protected, the appearance of the blog will return to normal. We can only protect 250 at a time so it won’t be done for awhile. But in the meantime we can read new stuff and some comments. I know it’s weird. Give it a
I’ll be out of Delhi without a computer until Wednesday of next week. You can read around in the archives. (Some of the best posts here are from the early days of this blog from 2007 to 2012, when the ideas we were coming up with then have proven to be still true to Krashen
Of course this would have to be tweaked but may help someone at some point. It is written to a parent of a native speaker child who requested of me that the child be moved up two levels to eighth grade from sixth in response to my email about the child’s (minor) behavior issues: Hello [name of
Location NowCast AQI PM2.5(ug/m3) Date US Embassy New Delhi 502 502.7 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Hyderabad 157 66.2 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Chennai 105 37.0 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Kolkata 198 146.7 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Mumbai 170 91.8 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST Anyone who knows about the Air Quality Index knows
I got an email saying that the Forum is down. Can a few people check on that and let me know in a comment field below?
We can all teach like Aretha sings. My colleague here at the American Embassy School, Anna Citrino, wrote about that idea on her blog. Check it out. It describes what we must do every day as story telling teachers, and what Aretha does: https://annacitrino.wordpress.com/
When we mix L1 with L2 in class, their minds don’t know which one to try to understand. They get confused. But when we stay SLOW and steady in the L2, and the input is fun and easy to listen to, and lots of emotions are involved along with creatures they created as the main
Stories + Invisibles = TPRS On Steroids The above formula is true at least for me, and for my own students. They just literally mobbed me after class to get THEIR idea – of how Mr. Lintus Lint go rescued by his daughter – accepted into the not finished story. We argued about whether Lint’s
We get scared when we are flying by the seat of our pants in the asking of a story. But that is where the greatest safety lies.
