The unconscious mind is a soup kitchen where the language acquisition process takes place. The language acquisition process does not take place in the dining room.
The vegetables and broth and other ingredients are what we provide the chef, who in the unconscious minds of our students is master organizer of the meal. The chef prepares the meal in the safety and security of the unconscious minds of our students while they sleep. We are just the delivery people who drive our delivery trucks down the two way streets of the town during the day to provide the ingredients to the kitchen.
We do not need to provide the recipe. We just bring the food. We are not the chefs. We do not go into the kitchen and prepare and cut the vegetables – we just bring them to the door of the kitchen and drop them off.
We cannot know what recipes are needed for language acquisition. Only the Chef knows. The research backs that up. Then why are we having so many meetings and filling out so many forms and targeting so many structures and doing so many pacing guides and all that to the point where some of us plan more than we teach?
The delivery boy doesn’t get to meet with the chef about the meal. We deliver the food to our students, but we do not prepare it. It is prepared in the unconcious mind of the soup kitchen and we are not smart enough to figure out the recipes that the Chef uses.
We make a delivery, and then in comes another group five minutes later and we make another delivery, for most of us five times a day. It is a fairly simple job. But then we make it complicated by running into the kitchen and grabbing the boxes that we just dropped off and we shove the chef aside and we go crazy (some of us go crazy) planning the menu and cutting and slicing and dicing the food/language into little pieces in our classrooms. We are really crazy to do so much more work than we have to. Teachers love to make more work for themselves than is necessary.