A repost from 2009: I suggest that we endeavor to respect the continuum of hearing and seeing in L2 – the auditory part in stories, and the visual part in readings. When I say continuum, I mean flow of L2, as in din of L2, in stories. Readers unfamiliar with Krashen’s term Din are invited to […]
My first career choice was to repair lava lamps, but they went out of style, although you can still get them at Walmart. My next career preference was to become a choral conductor, but that didn’t happen either. So my third career choice was to become what is now called a traditional language teacher. I
Here is a repost of an article from 2009. I was reading some of Michael Fullan’s work and saw in it support of what we are going though in TPRS/CI. I am hearing from Fullan that: 1. Shared leadership is essential. This means, to me, no camps and no secrecy. Open and honest dialogue about teaching, and
I wrote the following yesterday as a comment to something Mike said, but want to make it a blog here so I can reference it later to see how true it is. For yesterday’s classes, not using English at all was a great shot in the arm, and perhaps a sleeper, not just for me, but
