Can’t we finally just let the part of the brain that brings language proficiency do all the work, as originally designed by the Master Architect, and thereby achieve some degree of relaxation in our classrooms? It is possible! Not only is it possible, but I think that learning how to teach in a way that […]
Language education reform is happening NOW and teachers who are not aware of the research are looking increasingly silly with each passing day as they bow down at the altar of the status quo. Lots of language teachers are now starting to finally unite and inform their too-often oblivious district supervisors that they are doing
No complex curriculums are needed to learn a language. No word lists are needed. No thematic unit lists are needed. No semantic sets are needed. No high frequency verb lists are needed. No testing is needed. All we have to do is deliver interesting/compelling CI. The “no testing” comment above may have raised one or
Language teaching differs dramatically from teaching other school subjects. In language instruction, all we have to do is speak to our students in ways that they understand. That’s all that is needed. Everything else is taken care of by the powerful unconscious mind, which we give so little credit to when we design language curriculums,
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The Ultimate CI program works is designed: To fully align with the research. To fully reflect the Communication Standard. In order to accomplish that in the world of actions and not just in the world of words (many CI programs lie about what they do): It is designed on and based in a feeling of
We welcome Stacey Gonzalez, Barbara Routledge, and Ana Garcia to the group. I don’t know Stacey and Ana yet. Barbara is a Nationally Certified Board Spanish teacher in Oklahoma whom I met years ago at a TPRS national conference. I’m counting on her to provide a strong anchor to the work we do here because
There is absolutely no basis for some language teachers’ insistence on doing something in a particular manner just because it’s the way they have always done it. Such teachers rarely even speculate that it might be interesting to try a different way to do things in their classrooms. They don’t want to change. Whenever they
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Circling doesn’t work. It’s old. Don’t buy into it anymore. If you feel that your recent teaching with CI has been boring, look to Circling as one of the causes. That and a lack of proper structure in your CI instruction. Circling came into the old TPRS/CI movement in 2005. I was there for that grand
Daniel Tiger is an innocent young tiger, very much like our students. The result of our stubborn focus on the form of the language and on the way that it is built mechanically is that our instruction has become alarmingly mechanical. Tigers don’t do mechanical. They do natural. We just haven’t provided our students with any
In the short video below, Lady Elaina apologizes to Daniel Tiger for forgetting to visit him. Should we not all have similar conversations with our students? Should we not now finally start to apologize to our students for forgetting their real needs as children studying a language and their needs to be treated in class
