Idées Reçues
From Wikipedia: "An idée reçue is a received, or accepted, idea. This term was used by Gustave Flaubert in his work Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues to refer to a catch phrases and platitudes, most of which are as paradoxical as
StudySpanish.com
Got this from Michael today: Hi Ben, Here's a counter perspective my buddy sent me that he ran into on StudySpanish.com: http://www.studyspanish.com/whyteachgrammar.htm I also included my response. Just thought it was hilarious to read this article and someone trying to defend the traditional approach
Tom Robbins
Jim sent this: Thought you guys might appreciate this: “Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.” Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
The Truth Will Out
Chill sent me this: Hey Ben, In case you have not had time to read the latest issue of " Foreign Language Annals", Vol 44, No 3, Fall 2011, I recommend an article entitled " Grammar Teaching and Learning in L2: Necessary,
Teaching the Subjunctive Mood/Big Announcement
We don't get the kinds of repetitions on the subjunctive that we get with other verbal structures. And it's just not a high frequency structure in the language relative to the amount of time we have to teach it. Bryce
Brick House 10
Point to the design of the building when reading. Don't stop and dwell on single bricks but point on and then on again to the next sentence, and then do that again with the sentence after that and keep on going.
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So let the kids read, which teaches real grammar. Let them hear the language - it accomplishes the same thing. Make sure that they understand it - that is your job. Don't mention the names of the bricks of the
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The fact is that the grammar teachers' claim that their students can acquire a language by focusing on bricks is and has always been completely false. Nothing can come from studying a language in this way. As language teachers we
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A pile of bricks. That is what grammar teachers inflict on their students when they don't present the whole building to their students from the beginning of their language study. What Susan Gross says about reading, therefore, is important [bracketed
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When the bricks are presented from the beginning of the program of study via sound and thus as integrated and contiguous pieces of the overall house, as the learner's mind points to each brick countless times in countless arrangements of