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CHOOSE YOUR OWN PASSWORD

By |2017-10-11T13:22:12-06:00May 18th, 2017|

For the last week of school I have allowed students to choose their own passwords. What a fun way to start each class period this has been! They get to show how smart they are, and I get to admire and applaud them. This is just where we want [...]

THE FUTILITY OF ERROR CORRECTION

By |2017-10-11T13:22:12-06:00January 23rd, 2017|

Why don’t foreign language teachers spend more time correcting the errors in students’ speech and writing?  Isn’t that what teachers are supposed to do?  Isn’t that our job, showing them where they are wrong? Well… No!  A language teacher’s job is to get the students to acquire the language, [...]

SOCRATIC QUESTIONING & LANGUAGE TEACHING

By |2016-06-03T10:15:10-06:00June 3rd, 2016|

The main thing that some students learn in a foreign language class is that learning another language is just way too hard for them. They mainly learn that they stink at it. They think that becoming fluent is beyond them and that they will never get it. But they [...]

SOCRATIC QUESTIONING AND TPRS

By |2017-10-11T13:22:13-06:00October 14th, 2015|

The main thing that some students learn in a foreign language class is that learning another language is just way too hard for them.  They mainly learn that they stink at it.  They think that becoming fluent is beyond them and that they will never get it.  But they [...]

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION BY A FRENCH TEACHER

By |2017-10-11T13:22:15-06:00September 16th, 2015|

Here are the reflections on a recent classroom observation by Bridget Webster, a middle school French teacher. Her heartfelt and keen observations will help to encourage teachers that are considering taking the plunge into Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI). Bridget has been teaching for three years and is relatively new to [...]

SSR WIN!

By |2017-10-11T13:22:15-06:00August 31st, 2015|

For the first 2 1/2 weeks we have been focusing on just two areas: 1) classroom routines, procedures and rituals, and 2) Personal interviews. The affect and confidence level in the class is just about right: students are confident that they can learn Spanish and comfortable with the environment [...]

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