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Oil and Water Don’t Mix
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2 thoughts on “Oil and Water Don’t Mix”
I was so bummed out last week when I checked notebooks and all my students had written down were lists of words. Then I realized that I have been putting words with translation on the board before I put them into sentences. But I understand too that students feel like they’re “doing something” when they write word lists since they’ve become so accustomed to it.
Yes, they wrote them down bc they have been trained by school in general that they would be on “the test”. Never mind that if they never hear and understand them in context the words are doomed to spend the rest of their lives buried in the garbage heap of their “memorized only for the test” minds. They won’t learn a thing. And then when we tell them that all they have to do is listen it’s too much for them. They can’t handle that it’s just that easy to learn a language. Nor can our colleagues, the admins, the parents, lots of people in ACTFL, the textbook people, and a lot of our own CI colleagues handle that simple fact. Blaine’s original child-like and innocent model has been leveraged up to wonderful CI “programs” with all sorts of stuff that has dragged Blaine’s vision into a new place, one of profit and self-praise by the current crop of CI “gurus”.