Rejoinders

FIRST WEEK TO-DO LIST

By |2018-08-15T12:37:10-06:00August 14th, 2018|

"Si al comienzo no muestras quién eres, nunca podrás después, cuando quisieres."  "If at first you do not show who you are, you will never be able to afterwards when you want to." From El Conde Lucanor, Cuento XXXV, by Don Juan Manuel (Medieval Castilian writer, 1282-1348). The first [...]

ESSENTIAL CLASSROOM TOOLS

By |2018-02-14T20:55:50-07:00February 14th, 2018|

I enjoy teaching with very few props or electronics. Relationship-based teaching (passwords, discussing reading and persona especial interviews) propped up by well-honed TPRS questioning skills are the go-to tactics in my classroom. But I have discovered that there are two tools without which I can no longer function optimally, [...]

REJOINDERS KEEP CONVERSATIONS GOING

By |2017-10-27T15:02:44-06:00October 27th, 2017|

Rejoinders may be one of the most important practical vocabulary items we teach students. As we use the target language in our classrooms we model rejoinders and we encourage students to use them because they are so helpful in keeping a conversation going. Using a rejoinder is an easy [...]

THE MOST IMPORTANT PHRASE SO FAR

By |2017-10-11T13:22:17-06:00September 19th, 2012|

In my Spanish classes one of the most useful and wonderful phrases that the students have acquired so far is lo siento (I'm sorry). Lo siento has to be high frequency, particularly for a novice level speaker in a foreign country. I know I was always saying it when I [...]

Rejoinders #3

By |2017-06-27T16:39:22-06:00October 27th, 2011|

Here is a question about encouraging students to use rejoinders in the classroom by a colleague that has begun using them this year.  It is a good one, because we all lose steam every so often and because he seems to sense that using rejoinders is important for building [...]

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