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Ben, there’s another revolution at work when we move toward CI: the need for content competence. This may subconsciously be the cause of much of the resistance to TPRS/CI. Under the old paradigm I can teach foreign language like I teach math or history. If my skills are uncertain, I need only stay “one chapter ahead” of my students. Under the new paradigm of CI teaching (personalized, pursuing class interests, planned in broad outlines), I have to know my subject (the language, not linguistics) well enough to deal with basically anything that arises. I also have to be confident enough to admit when I don’t know something.
I think a great deal of resistance comes from people who don’t have the content-area skills necessary for CI and are unwilling to do what it takes to get them. (There is no sin in being ignorant, just in deciding to remain so.)
Well said, Robert, and, to extend the point a bit further, we see teachers with great language skills resist what we do as well. On those folks, I think it is the predictability you refer to:
…under the old paradigm I can teach foreign language like I teach math or history…”.
that keeps them from diving off the board. How easy! It just doesn’t work, is the problem. They’ll get that one day, when too many kids trained with Krashen based methods start running circles (what a great expression) around their kids. It’ll be one of those tipping point moments, and then everyone will be not just talking about speaking the target language in the classroom, they’ll be trying to do it!