Hi Ben. I decided that nobody is going to be able to criticize TPRS teachers who show how awesomely effective (and easy) the method is. I have a mixed group: 6 1s, 19 2s and 3 native speakers. Fully unsheltered grammar from Day 1. I am gonna post the beginners’ results publicly (minus kids’ last names) so people can SEE how well this works and so people will stop trashing us.
Anyway here is one such post.
You can read enough Spanish to see how good this stuff is. These guys are EIGHT WEEKS IN and they can do 300 words in 40 minutes! I am waiting for a grammar grinder or a communicative teacher to outdo me. Also I suck….somebody who ACTUALLY knows this stuff, like Blaine or Adriana RamÃrez or Joe Neilson, their kids could blow mine away.
Chris