Juan Lopez
Jim Baird send this: Hey Ben, I would like to tell you about one of my adult ESLstudents, 36 year old Juan Lopez. In 1995 Juan immigrated from rural Guatemala to California. Reportedly, his English speaking skills were zip. He went to work
The Hole In Their Hearts 2
I am about to embark, for the rest of the year, on using much more reading and songs to generate CI. I think that the focus on stories may have kept us from innovating more than we have into these
The Hole In Their Hearts 1
Jim said: I’m curious to know what you all think is most hurting kids in our buildings (I can think of many things), or shall I say where we should focus in order to help nurture a capable generation of young
In Service Of Authentic Comprehensible Input
Just to reiterate. I see technology really helping, serving beautifully, my students, outside of the classroom. It helps them process so many things that are interesting to them, from songs, sometimes even in communication with kids from other countries, and
A Blow To His Confidence 29
Well, good things are certainly worth waiting for. For those who kept up with the other 28 blog entries from K from last year (none this year until now), we can finally get an update on how French 2 is going
Kelly Lutz
I got this from Kelly (North High School/DPS) who observed last week. I like it. It makes me feel like I can connect with my colleagues, which is not always the case: Ben, thank you so much for opening your classroom
Real Language Teaching
There is one fundamental concept that we who follow Stephen Krashen's ideas should embrace. It is the idea that we are doing real language teaching when we speak from our hearts in the pure TL to our kids in such a
Response To Marc
Marc commented on the prezi.com post today: Marc Sheffner 11.05.10 at 7:14 PM "Thanks for posting this, Ben. It helps me address a dilemma/problem I’m facing with regard to PQA. (I don’t understand what prezi.com is or how to use it; I
Nathan Black
Nathan sent this exceptional post today. It will help everyone: Hi Ben, As I read through Dirk’s post about the difficulties of CI with small classes, I kept hearing the same refrain: you can’t do CI with small classes. I’d agree that it’s
It's Official – The World Is Round
The grammar translation analyis of language is in its death throes. We finally get that humans cannot possibly learn languages by consciously talking about them. The world is no longer flat. In this round, not flat, world, we have upward space