by Terry Waltz | Sep 4, 2016 | Curriculum, Drift / Is This TPRS?, Methods
or, “I do not think this word means what you think it means”. Krashen (2013) argues reasonably against a grammatical syllabus, but fails to comprehend the nature of targeting within a TPRS classroom. While he admits that “TPRS probably succeeds in...
by Terry Waltz | Jul 27, 2016 | Curriculum
Every so often someone asks: how do I teach TPRS from an “uncooperative” textbook? Like, one that has massive lists of vocabulary? I had to do this in the past with Buen Viaje (al Infierno), and this is how I did the organization work before starting the...
by Terry Waltz | May 27, 2015 | Curriculum
At the risk of angering those who have produced these materials — which are wonderful for the languages they were produced for — My observation has been that trying to use existing TPRS materials written for other languages (Spanish and French, primarily)...
by Terry Waltz | Apr 3, 2015 | Curriculum, General, Outside Forces
Grit is the new educational buzzword of the month. These days, every teacher is supposed to be teaching students “grit” in every class, all the time, in between those assemblies and standardized tests and music lessons and I don’t know what all. We...
by Terry Waltz | Dec 4, 2014 | Curriculum, Outside Forces
On a language teachers’ discussion list, a comment was recently made that  “the idea of targeted structures in inconsistent with what we know about language is acquired.It also makes in hard to make input interesting”. I think it could be. But only...
by Terry Waltz | Mar 8, 2013 | Curriculum, Methods
Someone recently asked on another list for ideas for stories that have time words in them. In my way of thinking, there are two types of “things” in language: things that occur in sets, and things that don’t. Things that don’t become the...
