Language Activity Facilitators 7
The mind simply cannot serve two masters. The human unconscious mind is far superior, infinitely superior, in the artful process of decoding and understanding the sounds of a foreign language than is the conscious mind. It does so just by
Language Activity Facilitators 6
What our kids do when they hear a story or just do PQA is they use the vastly superior technology of the human brain to create movies of what is being said. By focusing on the message, the medium is acquired.
Language Activity Facilitators 5
When we employ comprehensible input methods. we create real learning. The process, as Krashen has shown, must be an unconscious one in listening and reading both. In both, movies are created in the mind. The process becomes conscious and analysis creeps in only
Language Activity Facilitators 2
Jim, in a different comment than the one mentioned above, posted the following blockbuster comment here yesterday morning:
Language Activity Facilitators 1
In a recent comment here, Jim Tripp said:
My Visit To George Washington High School
My visit to George Washington yesterday was so much fun. The entire department of five young teachers all agree that Krashen is the best way to go for their kids. Because of this, and perhaps because of the youth of
Educating Our Employers
Robert and Bryce recently made comments here about the idea that comprehension based teaching is not just another way to teach, but a vastly superior way. I would like to add to what they said here: The Denver Public Schools has
Dunning-Kruger Premise + 1
Bryce - the Dunning-Kruger premise was so wonderful to read about. But, for me after a bit of reflection today, it only takes things so far. Can we really dismiss the failure of CI/TPRS to take hold by now in foreign language classrooms simply
Sy Ying Lee
I got this link from Beniko Mason. In it, Sy Ying Lee implies that reading is vastly underutilized by most if not all of us. We have Krashen's research, but we don't use it, even though we know that it
Coaching
Doug sent this update on how things have been unfolding this year. His new coaching group in Orange County is, in my opinion, an example of how we need to proceed. Obviously, coaching groups at the building level are not going to happen