Classroom Strategies
Corrections are No Longer Drudgery
Writing is output, but when I edit their texts and give them to other students to read, it becomes input. and compelling input at that.
Judith Dubois
Comprehensible Input
Twenty minutes to explain TPRS
When teachers experience the method as students, many deeply rooted beliefs and assumptions are swept away.
Classroom Strategies
Very Narrow Listening
I often feel that we do not devote enough attention to listening, whereas it is obviously an important skill if we are expecting our students to acquire a language through comprehensible input. Perhaps the most important skill of all.
Conference
Feedback from Carly
“I would absolutely love to come again and I would definitely recommend this conference to any language teacher interested in exploring TPRS and CI. “
Classroom Strategies
Why I no longer teach Phonics
Teaching phonics means concentrating on form and it only goes into short term memory , which basically means a lot of time and energy spent on very little gain. As Stephen Krashen says, “There’s an easy way and there’s a hard way. And the hard way doesn’t work.”
Conference
Agen Workshop 2015 – My thoughts
A week ago I was talking to Lillian Stirling and Teri Wiechart about the wonderful workshop that had just ended. Then I took them to the train, came home and went to bed, finally following my doctor’s orders to rest after a week’s delay. And that is pretty much all I’ve done or accomplished in
Conference
Testimonials
“a wonderful opportunity for teachers to question their own pedagogical practices, “
Articles from the Net
What does Stephen Krashen think of TPRS?
“TPRS maintains the innovations of the methods that went before it, but represents a big
increase in interesting input. This is done in two related ways: (1) Stories, co-created by
the student and teacher. Everybody in every culture is interested in stories. (2)
Personalization. In TPRS, the stories and other class activities are about the people the
students care about the most: themselves. “
Cours d'Anglais
Letter to my students
Students may have false ideas about how they should study. Here are some explanations to help them acquire fluency in a comprehensible input class.
Comprehensible Input
Comprehensible Input and the Noble Art of Horse-riding
“In the State of Song there was a man who, worried because his sprouts of grain were not growing fast enough, decided to go out to his field and pull on them. Without any idea of what he’d done, he returned home and announced to his family, ‘I am really exhausted today. I’ve been out in the fields helping the sprouts to grow!’ Alarmed, his sons rushed out to the fields to take a look and saw that all the sprouts had shriveled and died.”