Steven writes:
Well, I am totally cooking with CI here. I just finished my day 4 of teaching with OWI and CWB. Just out of curiosity I asked if anyone wanted to retell our OWI. It was a small golden piano inside the mouth of an alligator along with one of my student’s brothers.
Well my “qui-per” (who says “who” like an owl whenever I say “qui”) did a retell in FRENCH! I was in shock. We applauded together as a class.
I know that output does not equal acquisition and the structures were on the board but that was some other-world stuff.
Critiques may scoff saying that it was simply reciting but when was the last time you heard a parrot speak two complex sentences fluently in French?
As I learn from this work, I come to understand that compellingness trumps repetitions.
Thank you Ben for coming to California.