In my book, TPRS in a Year!, written a decade ago, I identify a number of skills and strategies which have morphed into the current version of comprehensible input that Tina and I recommend. It’s been a long and winding road.
In an important, searchable post here called “Hit List” – which is also a category here on the right side of this page because I consider it super important for anyone wishing to wrap their heads around NTCI – I explain how the theoretical underpinnings of my approach to CI as explained in TPRS in a Year! have changed. It explains why I don’t do TPRS anymore.
But, looking over the table of contents of that first of seven books, I recognized some old friends, skills that I called at the time “fun skills”, many of which have simply dropped away from my original vision of TPRS because the ocean of TPRS has become so large.
My surprise was that many of those 23 “fun skills” can still be used very effectively in a non-targeted CI classroom! So in some of the upcoming posts here I will share some of those “fun skills” in case anyone in our group wants to try them out.