by Terry Waltz | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Together forever…another happy match from a +1 that wasn’t left lonely!Photo by Jeremy Wong Weddings No, not for the wedding…or to fool the Chinese parents over Spring Festival…that’s been solved with all the useful rent-a-date...
by Terry Waltz | Mar 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Photo by Ben White So I’m reading this article the other day. “A comparison between teaching words through mere comprehensible input and through comprehensible input plus pushed output and corrective feedback was made.” Naturally I’m intrigued....
by Terry Waltz | Mar 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Correct orthography and usage are of the utmost importance to a highly qualified and effective teacher of world languages. How many errors can you spot? It’s amazing how many words we can just look at once and KNOW right off are misspelled…or, in my case,...
by Terry Waltz | Oct 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
On an Internet teachers discussion list, the comment was made with regards to the targeting/non-targeting question in TPRS/CI teaching: like say “here are my 3 phrases that my kids will acquire today.” No one says that. No one…except a CI teacher working in...
by Terry Waltz | Jun 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Elementary TPRS is TPRS embedded within a classroom management framework suitable for the age group. That’s it. This assumes the teacher knows and can provide real TPRS to begin with — by which I don’t necessarily mean “the teacher can keep a...
by Terry Waltz | Feb 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
First of all, this entire post assumes that the learner is sensibly learning Chinese first — that is, learning some of the language, and not worrying about literacy in characters until he has a base in the vocabulary and syntax of the language. Anything else is...
