by Terry Waltz | Jul 22, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, General, Methods, Outside Forces
Don’t get me wrong. I like octopi perfectly well. Seeing one up close was a highlight of the one-and-only, will-never-do-that-again time I went scuba diving in Hawaii. (Turns out I have a few claustrophobia issues…) It wasn’t a very big one, of...
by Terry Waltz | Jul 5, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, General, Methods, Speaking/Listening
On a web group for CI teachers, a comment was recently made: Intake(the part of the input that is comprehended) could be different for each student. This is to say one man’s targeted CI is another’s non-targeted CI. In light of our TPRS/CI lens, I have...
by Terry Waltz | Jul 3, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, General, Methods
The “TPRS/CI” lists and groups these days are filled with suggestions about activities. Activities you can do with no preparation. Activities you can do to teach this or that. All kinds of activities. But activities are good, aren’t they? Maybe. IMO,...
by Terry Waltz | Jul 2, 2017 | General, Methods, Speaking/Listening
There is so much talk these days about untargeted input. “Just speak the language with your students.” “You don’t have to pre-plan what language you will teach.” “They’ll get enough repetitions over the course of the year....
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 | Apr 5, 2017 | General, Methods
I’ve thought about how I teach. And I’ve realized I do not teach with comprehensible input. I teach with comprehended input. Comprehensible is not enough. Something that “can” be comprehended is not always comprehended. Especially with...
