TPRS from a Textbook
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...Should I use the Dothaki adaptation of the well-known Spanish TPRS textbook?
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)...“Grit” in the world language class
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...Non-targeted CI: best thing since sliced bread?
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...Stories with time words?
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...Want more?
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