The Psychology of Withdrawal
Some kids engage at the right amount. Some too much. What about the kids who withdraw? It is my thought-out position that, generally, kids who withdraw from interacting in a CI class have a reason to do so. We all know
Report from the Field – Craig West
Hi Ben - I'm in my new school. So far so good. Nothing to complain about. There are a lot of native speakers here in Spanish 1 but there are no other foreign languages to teach here so
Commentary on the Classroom Rules
This information is taken from the first of the Invisibles trilogy books, A Natural Approach to Stories (ANATS, 2015), which preceded A Natural Approach to the Year (ANATTY, 2017), which have now led to The Invisibles/The Invisibles Supplements (2019). If the
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Classroom Management is Based On How Our Students Feel We must make our classes interesting if we are to plug into the CI powerhouse and make it work for us. Here is the key sentence that we must keep in mind at
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We are not yet arrived at the nuts and bolts of classroom management in our summer examination of what the term actually means and how we can master it in our classroom in the fall. More reflection on what
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Comprehension of another language itself is joyful. So we can stop thinking of ourselves as hilarious entertainers who always have to bring the “wow” factor and begin to think of ourselves as calm, measured providers of comprehensible messages. Usually what
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One Has to Be Out of One’s Mind One has to be out of one’s mind to acquire a language. Thinking about the language is a mind-based activity that goes against the research and isolates students from one another. Feeling the language in happy communication (no thinking – everyone focused
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For a language teacher to not be in touch with the concepts put forth by Dr. Krashen and Dr. Beniko Mason and the other comprehensible input experts carries a high price tag in terms of the actual results we get from our students. This
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Our book on classroom management continues to be written here on a day-to-day way in this, our seventh installment: What Are Our Goals? What are our classroom management goals? What might we imagine a well- functioning CI classroom to look and
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Leaving Vampspooder and returning now to our progressively expanding new book on classroom management: A Fly in the Ointment As the proficiency movement and comprehension-based instruction have moved steadily forward, one glaring problem has arisen: classroom management has become more and more of a