by Terry Waltz | Aug 30, 2019 | General, Methods, Training
On various social media outlets, I frequently get comments of this type: This is CI for [Spanish/French]. We share about comprehension-based techniques and methods that work in our [Spanish/French] classes. It doesn’t matter whether these things work with...
by Terry Waltz | May 29, 2018 | General, Methods
It’s not any of them. CI is a lens. It’s a way of looking at things. Not only a way of looking, it’s the compulsion to look at everything that happens in the classroom and ascertain whether it is providing Comprehended Input in a way that will get...
by Terry Waltz | May 25, 2018 | General, Methods, Speaking/Listening
Except they really aren’t. They are not (for the most part) familiar stories, which means you can’t use background knowledge. They are not simple stories, which means lots of words are needed. IMO these stories don’t belong in a Chinese L1. You might get away with...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 27, 2018 | General, Methods
Lots and lots of people are going to workshops and conferences and starting to do TPRS or to try to teach with comprehended input. And that’s great. And those same people are out on the internet, looking for more information. More things to do in the classroom. More...
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...
