Responding to Eric on the Sandra Savignon article*, John Bracey said:
“Very important point, Eric. We haven’t happened upon a better way to prepare kids for conjugating verbs or declining nouns. We have learned how to teach a language to another human being. Given an assessment on spontaneous comprehension and production, our students should perform well. Given an assessment on discrete grammar items, our kids should perform quote poorly.
“The real gem in this article is that best practice in language teaching is fundamentally incompatible with traditional assessments. Giving a CI kid a verb synopsis assessment is like giving an art student an assessment on the factory identification numbers for different types of paint brushes.”
*http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED135245.pdf
The Problem with CI
Jeffrey Sachs was asked what the difference between people in Norway and in the U.S. was. He responded that people in Norway are happy and
