For those who may have recently joined our group, just an fyi that we take weekends off. We read and comment, but no new articles are published. Actually I’m going out to Portland in the morning and will be back Tuesday. I will time stamp a few articles to appear on Monday and Tuesday. It’s a […]

I got this from Bob Patrick: Ben, You may have already seen this, but I asked Krashen for the latest article he is offering to others.  He says we can share freely.  I’ve attached.  He demonstrates all his hypotheses with this amazing story of an African Grey Parrot.  In my opinion, those who are not

I’m not sure but I think this got lost in the queue. I think I got it from a group member in March. To that group member I apologize, bc the question needed to be answered by last April. Oops. Anyway: Hi Ben, In my Seminar in Research and Theory in FL Education grad class my professor would like  me

An ESL teacher asked me several questions about TPRS, and I forwarded the questions to a couple of group members. After commenting, Robert received the following “comprehension check” and shares his comments to it below (in italics): Your response was helpful – thanks for taking the time.  I’d like to check my understanding, if you don’t mind: TPRS

Josh is cool. There is no way getting around it. If you pay attention to that fact, you will feed it, but if you ignore it, it will get out into the room somehow anyway, in more subtle ways. Either way, the fact that Josh is cool will draw your students’ attention away from you

Many people think that the shift that we are in now towards comprehensible input is like the shift that has just recently occurred from the use of film to digital equipment in movie making. The reasoning is that film was effective, but digitial equipment is more effective and easier to work with, but the result

I got this link from John Piazza. It describes the hubris that we find at the college level. It talks about “elite professionals” whose intelligence so vastly outshines the rest of us (4%ers) that we need to listen to them and try to do what they do if we are to save our schools. As

I got this from Michele: Hi Ben, A visitor to my site shared this paper by Val Thornber, and I think you might find it most interesting: http://www.all-languages.org.uk/uploads/files/PP%20Presentations/LW2012/val%20thornber.pdf Michele

Anyone looking for a rommate in a suite up in Breckenridge just comment below. A few folks are looking. Just use the comment fields below to communicate. There may be a similar link for finding roommates on the iflt site: http://ifltconference.org/.

In March we agreed to have our weekends free of new posts. People expressed a need for a break and to be able to go back through the archives here. But in April I forgot and kept posting non-stop through the weekend. However, especially here in the summer, we need to respect our decision, which is

Try typing on a keyboard with complete awareness of how you are spelling each word. Think about each letter as it is typed. Isn’t that what traditional teachers do? They tell the kids to think about each word. Now compare that with how we type usually, when we have mastered the craft of typing. The

Robert has some excellent docs about the importance of German that he sent to Andrew. He said I could offer them to the group. Those interested send me an email address and I will forward them to you.