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.
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Using Proverbs
Through acquisition they were sufficiently aware of which structures were possible and which were not, without having had any explicite grammar training.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Classroom Management
When the Required Curriculum is Way Too Much!
The standard textbook approach has always reminded me of Johnny Cash’s song, One Piece at a Time, and gives similar results. The students, the few who persevere, have a lot of bits and pieces but they don’t necessarily fit together very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErKI0zWgjg
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About Very Narrow Listening, Stephen Krashen, Michael Jordan and Jackie Chan
We all know that magic tricks work because of the magician’s ability to focus our attention elsewhere. My students are focused on filling in the blanks, but actually my goal is to get them to listen to Comprehensible Input attentively and repeatedly.
Classroom Management
Interpersonal Communication
This poster can be downloaded and used to make your expectations visible in the classroom.
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What is Readers’ Theater?
Reader’s Theater is a way of “revisiting” a familiar text that makes it fun and compelling.
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How to Ask a Story … TPRS strategies
“Enjoy yourself. Have fun. Laugh at their funny ideas.”