It’s a method! No, it’s an approach! A philosophy!
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...Wow, this list of 100 English fairy tales is great for Level 1 TPRS!
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...Too many voices
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...Don’t be an octopus!
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...Is one man’s targeting another man’s non-targeting?
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...Want more?
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