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I remember briefly meeting at the San Diego iFLT conference a tall young man with a beard that also taught in a Waldorf School. Maybe that was Chris?
What are your thoughts, Chris, about how Waldorf students memorize songs in the middle of first grade, then copy down those songs later on, like a dictation. You say that this memorization provides a kind of “data-set” for student to be able to comprehend input and later produce language, am I right? Does this kind of memorization have a place in our CI classrooms? Maybe they do for kindergarden-2 grade but not with older students?
Please excuse my disregard to first express delight in this article you’ve written, Chris. Connecting TCI to how native language is acquired will help us make our case to those traditional teachers and supervisors. It sounds like mb’s supervisor, especially, should read your article.
As nearly as I can tell, this kind of memorisation is VERY useful. At the start of the year, I get my total beginners to rewrite the story. They’ve heard it, they’ve read it in variations– it’s an easy first step to write it out. Ben has lots of ideas (dictee) that support this sort of thing. It’s a great confidence booster.
No that wasn’t me at iFLT. Yes, the Waldorf approach is awesome and we should totally refer back to it when talking to doubters.
Chris, that is a great write-up about how Blain developed TPRS http://tprsquestionsandanswers.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/why-did-blaine-ray-develop-tprs/
Thanks for the article, Chris. Ever so often this year I have thought back to primary school days when we had to memorize poems and copy sentences off the board. I thought about having my beginner French students do that with our stories, or part of them, or some bit of familiar text. I never got around to doing it, but I will now, for sure. Writing puts language into our brains in a different way, even if it is copying. I can hardly wait.
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