Posting the question words on the wall in plain view, with their native/shared language translations, is pretty much standard practice in TPRS, and for good reason: these words are used frequently in the TPRS classroom, as we circle, and without an immediate aid to establish meaning for them, the efficient circling of new items through […]
Archive for November, 2011
Tagging for acquisition
Posted by Terry Waltz on November 3rd, 2011
We can’t see exactly how the brain works its magic in generalizing from many examples to just knowing what structure to automatically use to express a meaning it has never tried to express before — which is what fluent speakers can do. What if we think of it in terms of tagging? It’s sort of […]
Posted in Curriculum, General 
Tags: Acquisition, Comprehensible Input, Curriculum Tagging, Repetition, Theory 
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Posted by Terry Waltz on November 1st, 2011
On a language teachers’ group, a comment was recently posted to the effect that maybe language didn’t have to be 100% comprehensible, because a young native speaker could go for a long time before asking what a key word meant. Maybe, the poster offered, comprehension could be delayed and still be comprehension? There’s a very […]
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