Did a seminar in Seattle this week (the 5th of 5 this month) for the Institute for Educational Development, a division of the Bureau of Education and Research (BER). 62 enthusiastic attendees. Fabulous group! Saw some old friends and made some new ones. Woven throughout every aspect of the [...]
(Previous post: Acquisition/Learning) The next post in this series (#5/9), The Input Hypothesis, is found here. MANIAC N: The Natural Order of Acquisition Hypothesis "Students acquire elements of grammar in a predictable order that is unaffected by teaching." Stephen Krashen and other researchers contend that the order of acquisition is a [...]
The students in every one of my Spanish 1 classes pleased me immensely the other day by demonstrating they have a grasp on the importance of word frequency. I had mentioned that under the old textbook series I used to follow we would have just begun using verbs like [...]
Learn strategies that work for sustainable comprehensible-input based teaching with Bryce’s comprehensive one-day seminar: Best, Most Powerful Strategies for Teaching World Languages (Grades 6-12). Bryce will be presenting five seminars across the country this spring: • 4/09/18 (Monday) Buffalo (Amherst), New York • 4/10/18 (Tuesday) Boston (Natick), Massachusetts • 4/30/18 [...]
Just in time for the summer book-reviewing season! Here is the most recent list of High-Interest Vocabulary-Controlled Readers in Spanish. It is not a complete list of all books available in Spanish, just the ones I am familiar with and recommend. These are all books that I would use [...]
When I was beginning to learn TPRS I remember Susan Gross saying, "Shelter the vocabulary but not the grammar." Why? Because that's how we actually use language. When adults speak to children they use less advanced words but they do not shelter the grammar. They do not use only [...]