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Conflict 4
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3 thoughts on “Conflict 4”
“students who have learned the language in the model you are suggesting having significant gaps in their writing and reading abilities.” Says who? This is so blatantly untrue. Writing and reading abilities must be based on the oral language. Students who can understand a spoken sentence will have no difficulty reading it. Students who know how to articulate a comprehensible sentence will have no difficulty writing it down. (Especially since most languages are far more phonetic than English is.) I can not imagine any honest way of measuring writing and reading abilities that would not show TPRS students to be way ahead of those who have been taught a language as a kind of esoteric code system.
If there is a big time flaw in the thinking of those who refuse to dive deep into the comprehension approach waters and see what is really down there, it is this, what you say here Judy:
…writing and reading abilities must be based on the oral language….
By convincing their principal that this is true, when it is blatantly false, more than false if that is possible, they perpetuate the ruse, the ignorance. They thus keep the language acquisition process in the analytical realm, where it does not happen, and where they, as analyzers and mechanics of language, are safe. If Krashen is right and language acquisition really does happen in the unconscious mind, and it does, then they are SOL professionally. They have to defend their turf with nonsense like the above.
If someone allowed me only one sentence to describe what our mojo consists of, it would be that sentence right there, Judy.
Related:
https://benslavic.com/blog/2010/06/21/the-unconscious-mind-is-wonderfully-set-up/
https://benslavic.com/blog/2010/07/18/we-learn-languages-unconsciously-1/
I suppose that is why we don’t really bother to teach the masses to read until their eyes have developed better tracking and their unconscious vocabulary is so much larger (somewhere around age 5-7). I remind my students each class that we are babies toddling forward. I remind them of the learning process they went through for English. And then we toddle off on Mvskoke Nene (The Creek Road).