by Terry Waltz | May 28, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, General, Theory
On a teacher’s list, the statement was recently made in support of StoryListening and not worrying about noise (incomprehensible language) and checking comprehension during input: What about the argument that one person’s noise is another person’s i + 1? This is...
by Terry Waltz | May 27, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, Methods, Outside Forces
Advocates of StoryListening (having students simply listen to stories, without comprehension checks or repetition of new language) typically report that “I feel it’s great” or “I just know they understand”. But from a factual perspective,...
by Terry Waltz | May 19, 2017 | Chinese-specific, Reading, Unfounded Tripe
Recently, a teacher of an alphabetic, phonetic language who does not teach Mandarin posted online to the effect that: …heavy intellectualizing teachers are driving the Mandarin train further down into the intellectual caverns of non-productivity. This, at least,...
by Terry Waltz | May 3, 2017 | Chinese-specific
I think the issue many people are having of late about “establishing meaning” and whether it can or cannot be done via gesture comes from numbering the “steps” of TPRS. Most people aren’t actually establishing meaning solely using...
by Terry Waltz | May 2, 2017 | Chinese-specific
So you’re starting a new class using TPRS for Chinese. The first thing to figure out, in Chinese, is what language you will be using with them, followed closely by “what will they read that contains that language?” Many new TPRS teachers want to go...
