Random Thought

I was just thinking how totally ridiculous it is for us to think that we can teach a language by grouping it in terms of themes, like the numbers or colors, etc. It really is not just wrong, which I have always thought, but it’s also crazy! What if we did that with our first language, without ever giving our kids a chance to hear the actual spoken language? And yet it is still being done – a lot – in the CI world and of course in the textbooks. What a true waste of time thematic unit instruction really is!

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