by Terry Waltz | Jun 6, 2018 | Chinese-specific, General, Languages of Unusual Features, Training
All you people who’ve had a couple of Chinese lessons — please, please — and I am not saying this to be mean — stop generalizing your experience with Chinese to the broader field of language acquisition and particularly to teaching Chinese....
by Terry Waltz | May 31, 2018 | General, Training
Many teachers are beginning to take distance students using Skype or other technologies, and increasingly there are questions about what needs to be done to have a successful 1-on-1 class using TPRS. It’s true that there are a few things that should, or can, be...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 28, 2018 | General, Training
Paraphrasing a post I saw on another group recently. A teacher was very dissatisfied with her own performance in implementing TPRS. She had been to a conference, watched all the videos she could find, and practiced, but still she felt inadequate. Even though her...
by Terry Waltz | Aug 14, 2017 | Training
For training to be effective, it should: 1. Provide information about what teachers are supposed to be doing, and 2. Provide teachers as realistic as possible a situation to do it in, while still making the situation safe and “scaffolded” (i.e., they...
by Terry Waltz | Jul 16, 2017 | General, Training
Bob buys a green car. Does Bob buy a green car? (Yes). Yes, Bob buys a green car. Does Bob buy a horse? (No) That’s right, Bob doesn’t buy a horse. He buys a green car. Does Bob buy or rent a green car? (Buys) Yes, he buys a green car. He doesn’t...
by Terry Waltz | Jan 28, 2017 | Training
On another TPRS-focused list, someone recently posted: Terry Waltz, a staunch proponent of what I would call Classical TPRS, has said many times that TPRS takes a lot of practice and has a large skill set to master, and therefore she asserts that new practitioners...
