“Acquisition” vs “progress”
On a teaching email list, someone recently posted expressing pleasure at how well someone was “acquiring” TPRS. Except that you don’t “acquire” TPRS. Why does that matter? Why does it make a difference whether we throw the word...Tonally Orthographic Pinyin system infographic
After not realizing for a long time that there wasn’t any information about the Tonally Orthographic Pinyin system of triple-marked tones for teaching Mandarin up on my web site, I finally got my act together and made an attempt at summarizing the rules and some...Life Experience and Authentic Tasks in the Language Classroom
There was recently a discussion about other things on a mailing list, and a teacher gave some examples of types of assessment being used. One thing stuck out in my mind: a task that required students to make a “phone call” (to an online service) and...TPRS for Adult Post-Beginners
A teacher recently asked for suggestions for how to modify TPRS to suit the needs of an adult “post-beginner” class, which would be taught for 2 hours a day. The goals of the class, which is for ESL, would be to equip the learners with the language to be...Want more?
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