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More Grammar does not lead to More Acquisition.
“the students are so involved in what’s going on in terms of content that they’re not really aware that they’re acquiring the language”
Judith Dubois
Classroom Strategies
From Gibberish to … Wow!
You may have found a great video but when you put it on, your students complain that the speakers don’t articulate, they speak too fast and their accents are frightful! It’s gibberish to them.
Comprehensible Input
Agreeing to Disagree
An experienced teacher knows her students, their culture and their needs and her own personality and possibilities better than anyone else. No one can make her decisions for her. If what she is doing is working, if her students are acquiring language, no one can criticize it. If it’s not working, she knows it before anyone else.
Classroom Strategies
Using Proverbs
Through acquisition they were sufficiently aware of which structures were possible and which were not, without having had any explicite grammar training.
Classroom Strategies
How to Get More Grammar with Less
So, my advice to colleagues who feel torn between teaching with Comprehensible Input and teaching grammar is to trust their wings, the wings of Acquisition, and jump off the roof.
Conference
The Magic of the Agen Workshop 2016
The most powerful ingredient in the magic that is Agen: the friendship between those who come from far away with their curiosity, their enthusiasm and their open minds.
Classroom Strategies
To Circle or not to Circle
Teachers intent on counting reps forgot that input must always be compelling. If your students’ eyes have glazed over, you may as well stop circling.
Classroom Strategies
Story Listening: What is it?
I am grateful to Beniko Mason Nanki for presenting teachers around the world with an elegant and easy to use a strategy that allows us to immerse our students in compelling comprehensible input.
Articles from the Net
Conference
Ben Slavic
He is passionate about his craft, passionate about wanting to help others find their way. He has the courage to go off the beaten path, the courage to try new methods and the courage to speak his mind.