by Terry Waltz | Jan 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
With tax time around the corner, it’s time to think about how you’re “spending” your “vocabulary budget” (or budgeting for your students.) A “keeper item” is something you are willing to spend $1 of your $100 language...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
On a noted foreign language teachers’ list, a recent discussion asked about the use of “crutches” by students. Interestingly, I think that CI teachers are much less opposed to crutches, simply because we do not have to fear that the use of a...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Someone recently asked on another board why CI doesn’t use guessing. Most folks were brought up to understand that the ability to guess an unknown word is crucial for a foreign language learner. Isn’t CI shortchanging learners by always telling them what...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Accent is a systematic substitution of sounds for other sounds that you would normally expect (“normal” here depending on where you’re from and what you learned, etc. etc., the usual disclaimers…) This is really closely related to Giles and his...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I would say it’s easier to learn to read if you are reasonably fluent. Writing involves two “strands” or competencies, if you will. I call them “mechanical literacy” and “compositional literacy”. “Mechanical...
