On a language teachers’ forum, the question goes up: Does it mean that I’m not doing what I should or is it really pretty meaningless and and should stop worrying and not subject my students to it again? My principal likes this kind of thing because he thinks it shows that our students do well… […]
Archive for April, 2011
Why aren’t my kids scoring high on the Countrywide Swahili Test?
Posted by Terry Waltz on April 30th, 2011
Posted in Methods, Outside Forces 
Tags: Accuracy, Assessment, Tests, TPRS 
Comments Off on Why aren’t my kids scoring high on the Countrywide Swahili Test?How do you learn new words if everything is known?
Posted by Terry Waltz on April 23rd, 2011
On a Chinese-learning forum, a user asked: I understand how CI develops the ability to recognise and produce appropriate structures and functions in a language, but if the input is all known to the learner (in terms of vocabulary used) how does the learner acquire the long lists of vocab needed to actually use the […]
Posted in Methods Tags: Comprehensible Input, Micro-Fluency, Novices, Proficiency, Unknowns 3 Comments »