The strangest thing about fully espousing comprehensible input methods, including TPRS, is that in June I’m not exhausted from trying to push a program that essentially doesn’t work down kids’ throats.
The kids liked what I taught them last year, and they want more next year. Thank you Dr. Stephen Krashen and Blaine Ray! The eclectic text book driven curriculum are fading fast, like at the end of a race.
Someone asked me about why I have bashed Miriam Met on this blog in the past (search her name here for that). It’s because I don’t want kids’ time wasted, and certainly is nothing personal.
When I asked her about TPRS she called it “another tool in the tool kit”. That is simply not true. It is a universe and can’t even begin to fit in any tool kit that includes the use of English.
The very tool kit of eclectic stuff, which require the mixing of output with input and English with the target language, is proving itself useless in terms of real outcomes. I apologize to nobody for that statement and for not being publicly kind to Miriam.
One time in a principal’s office I apologized to someone for a statement – I can’t even remember what it was – made on this blog. It seemed to make sense at the time. But it was crazy and I retract my apology here. I apologize for apologizing.
And I certainly don’t apologize to Miriam Met. She traveled to Denver to show a very large group of teachers how to use Realidades. What the hell?
Shouldn’t trainers of teachers be showing them how to do comprehensible input, like Liz Hughes just did to rave reviews down in South Carolina in a week long graduate course this past week? That’s what I think. And kudos to Michel Baker for setting that thing up.