Fee for the conference:  $400

Lodging, food, drink, and transportation: $1,000

Watching TPRS presenters and hanging out with colleagues:  Priceless

We’ve got to get more TPRS/TCI presenters to major, mainstream conferences like this. We have to jump into the mainstream in order to change it.  Comprehensible Input-based teaching is the future of language teaching.  It MUST be, or the accountants at the head office will have us replaced.  Our students will be herded down to the computer lab to watch the lights and listen to the whistles on the monitors.