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OK with people off to conferences, and with summer in full sail, let’s really take a full break. We can report back from the conferences, of course, or anyone with a pressing article can just send those conference reports from the field or articles to me for publication when I can get to them. I […]

Until I can figure out where to save the vPQA files that we eventually want to put into our big vPQA data base, I am putting this from Julie right here. At least we can use it for now if we want. Julie has given us permission to change languages, etc. duerme, lleva, hace ruido,

https://docs.google.com/a/mps148.org/presentation/d/1ZTVSHFLiAhHr_rKJeVwIGalPEaxU7Zk4OTwbjTqDBhM/edit?usp=docslist_api

A nice simple Star of the Day from Don Read. Thank you Don. Etoile du Jour 24 Fevrier 2015 Don Read

This slide show from Bryan is not vPQA per se but can be modified. See qualifications in the comment fields below: 00 Les Aventures d’Isabelle Master – Chap 1-2 00 Les Aventures d’Isabelle Master – Chap 3-6 00 Les Aventures d’Isabelle Master – Chap 7-10

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Eric asked me: “Would you have ACTFL write policy/positions to align everything exclusively with Krashen and ignore or condemn the rest? ACTFL cannot do that if it is to represent the entire field of SLA.” One answer might be: Yes, I would have ACTFL write policy/positions to align everything exclusively with Krashen. I would say

I have made a synopsis of the steps Julie uses to design her vPQA slide shows. I republish it (it first appeared here in March) because some of us will be working with it next week and Julie will be there to demo it. I want to highlight the parts in red below, and discuss

This is from Bryan Whitney: Hi Ben – I made a reference for the top 50 high frequency French verbs with images for the Power Verb Activity, and I also included the opposites of each verb since they are easy to teach together in pairs that way. I thought this might be a useful reference

Yvonne asks: My name is Yvonne and I live in London, UK with my husband and 3 children. I have a background in Digital media and eLearning (BSC & Masters degree) I taught Business Information Technology and Social media marketing for 6 years in a London University. I am currently on a one year break

This is to formally announce the publication of my newest book: The Big CI Book – A Step by Step Survival Guide for Foreign Language Teachers. At 400 pages, it vastly expands on the skills and strategies we currently have available to us in TPRS/CI instruction. Those reading closely here over the past eight years,