by Terry Waltz | Feb 26, 2017 | Speaking/Listening
This is perhaps the most basic skill of the entire TPRS repertoire. Because if you do not establish meaning, the students cannot comprehend. If you don’t establish meaning, all the gestures in the world won’t make up for it. If you don’t establish...
by Terry Waltz | Feb 22, 2017 | General
Dear New-ish TPRS Teacher: So, you’ve done the workshop. You’re excited about the possibilities of using TPRS and Comprehensible Input in your classroom. And you’re right to be. You’re starting on the next phase of your teaching career, and...
by Terry Waltz | Feb 18, 2017 | Chinese-specific, Languages of Unusual Features, Methods, Reading
On a language teachers’ list, the statement was recently made by a teacher interested in the debate about naturalistic CI versus optimized CI: I have some plans to work with some Mandarin teachers to test this [naturalistic input] out. They have not been...
by Terry Waltz | Feb 17, 2017 | Chinese-specific, Reading
On a teachers’ email list, the comment was recently posted: I definitely need more than the text to understand even simple Chinese stories. Translation is ONE way of making tests more comprehensible. But I think we need to exploit other ways as well, including...
