Input vs. Output 1
This content from a recent comment by Jody on http://www.benslavic.com/blog/2011/12/05/ohio-may-have-a-problem/ cannot be ignored so I am reposting it here as a blog entry:
University Student Classroom Observation
More from Byrce and AshLee: (posted by Bryce Hedstrom at his site http://www.brycehedstrom.com/2011/university-student-classroom-observation) These are some further reflections by AshLee, a student at Colorado State University. I had presented on TPRS in her Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages class and she came
We Are All Babies With This Stuff
Jane sent this short animated film in French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILmjvmsExNQ
Smart Listening
Jody sent this link: http://ideas.time.com/2011/12/07/the-power-of-smart-listening/
Block Class Suggestions
Pls. find three options for 90 block classes below. I pulled these from blog posts here so that they can more easily be found in one place. I included comments so all of this is tremendously long so sorry about
PQA Tip
It would probably be a good thing to check the phrases that go with the story before class. Think about which one(s) could lend themselves to PQA. Like today, the simple phrase "after school" turned out in one of my
Some History
This is a comment turned blog entry from a week ago about the history, as I see it, of comprehension based instruction over the past fifty years: We must respect the vision set out in 1983 when the push towards fluency instruction
He Talks Too Much (Matava) – Latin – John Piazza
From John: Here is a Latin story loosely based on Talks Too Much. As you can see, the details got a bit out of hand, and I chose to include more details that I would have liked, but the kids -
The Refrigerator Story (Matava) – German – Brigitte Kahn
From Brigitte: Hi, This is a reading based on a Matava script (the ever popular Refrigerator story). I used it for level one and it worked great. I was a bit concerned that the structures might be a bit too advanced but
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