Claire calls out a whole bunch of people below. How will they react?
Ever wondered why ESL teachers are not using TPRS (except me, myself, and I)? It’s because we try to combine TPRS and CBI, despite the fact that CBI is inappropriate for beginning language learners. ESL teachers know content (like targets) is not appropriate for beginners. We know nation-wide we fail Newcomers (baby beginner, zero English students) but we are addicted to CBI and its easily tested content language (we don’t say “targets” but the concept of ideas being right/wrong apply).
So we ignore the research because we want to target and test wrong/right, readily demonstrable skills. We want to be right. We want validation. For us, not the kids.