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9 thoughts on “Message from a Former Student”
Very cool. Thank you for sharing this.
This is what it’s all about.
No doubt there are many more students that feel the same way about you as Jamil does but just haven’t had a chance to write a letter.
Thanks Ben.
AWESOME!
Would be great if you could get him to make a Youtube video testimony.
Yes. NTCI needs all it can get!
The odd part is how right you are about NTCI needing all the attention it can get.
And yet it and NOT the targeted CI/TPRS approach is the one that aligns with the research. Everybody seems to be fine with aligning their instruction with an approach that, in fact, constrains interest, as per Krashen’s statement.
I would venture to suggest that the reason they are fine with targeting and aligning with the system in place in their schools is that they are afraid of rocking the boat. They are willing to make only a weak effort to align with the research in order to not get into conflict with those around them. Since when does coming from a position of fear bring any lasting change?
It’s disappointing bc NTCI is so much easier to do.
Another reason that teaching professionals don’t embrace NTCI is that they perceive it as too difficult. But that is pure ignorance. The entire argument is baseless, and yet it is parroted at every conference. What would happen if teachers saw how absolutely effortless it is to use NTCI? All that perceived leadership would evaporate and we would ALL be wonderfully capable experts at teaching in full alignment with research.
Chills. What a gift.
Ben, YOU are a badass!!!!
Remember when we had a “badass” theme going on here years ago? Everything was badass. It lasted like two months. I remember it was you who started it and I’ve been using it every since. It’s such a badass word.
I sent him A Natural Approach to Stories (ANATS) and he responded:
…thanks for attaching the book. I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read so far! Like I said, this philosophy of language teaching has always resonated strongly with me. I think my dream would be to become a language teacher some day, but first I’ll really need to buckle down, and commit myself to fluency in either French, Arabic or Spanish….
I’ll guide him along. If we can give these kids trained by us some hope that teaching a language might actually be fun and something they can make a living at, then that is what we want to do. I’ve always thought that the language teachers of the future are going to be our students.