On a teachers’ site, this question recently surfaced: Ok suppose a kid said, “Mr/Ms Smith, I want more grammar teaching/practice” and you’re like, “no way, there but for the grace of Blaine go I.” You know C.I. works but you need a fast, simple demo to show that grammar (or really any explicit teaching of […]
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Shooting down the grammar geeks
Posted by Terry Waltz on December 16th, 2016
Posted in Grammar 
Tags: grammar, memorization, rules and output 
Comments Off on Shooting down the grammar geeksMemorization: something to keep in mind
Posted by Terry Waltz on September 14th, 2016
On a discussion board for a prominent language-related association, the following came out of a discussion on homework and memorization in foreign language teaching practice. …some form memorization is vital to learning anything really; it is one of the building block of knowledge construction. Anything…except languages. Well, yes, memorization is vital to *learning* languages. Fortunately, […]
Posted in Grammar, Methods, Speaking/Listening Comments Off on Memorization: something to keep in mindNCIS: “I found this great song that teaches…”
Posted by Terry Waltz on September 12th, 2016
No, this isn’t about all music, and all the ways music can be used in a CI classroom. This episode of NCIS focuses on songs that Teach Something. Songs to help kids remember the verb endings, or the direct and indirect object pronouns, or the declensions, or whatever. This one doesn’t get a take-down by […]