by Terry Waltz | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
A reading group in the animal kingdom. On an online post, a teacher recently wrote: I would welcome suggestions of how to structure reading groups to target all three modes of communication. So you have a group of language students, and you have them in a group,...
by Terry Waltz | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Photo by Mert Guller But will your students be? Teachers go to demos, and teachers loooooove to learn new languages. That’s why we’re language teachers. We get excited by the grammar patterns, the new sounds, even (let’s face it!) the geekery —...
by Terry Waltz | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Keep the magic alive in your classroom! (Photo by Aron Visuals) The question was asked on social media recently: When y’all do special person interviews do you let the special person answer in L1? And like most things in life, the answer is “that...
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,...
