Classroom Conversations in Foreign Language

QUESTIONS STUDENTS WANT TO ASK ONE ANOTHER IN INTERVIEWS

By |2019-08-05T13:24:56-06:00August 5th, 2019|

As you get ready for school and begin thinking about what kinds of questions you will ask to get kids engaged and responding in Persona Especial student interviews, think about using some questions like the ones below. These are some questions that students have said they would like to ask [...]

QUESTIONS STUDENTS WANT TO ASK ONE ANOTHER IN INTERVIEWS

By |2019-08-05T13:00:45-06:00April 19th, 2016|

These are some of the questions that students said they would like to ask one another using the present perfect. It is interesting that the hot items always cluster around the same themes. Questions about four topics are always winners, and they showed up here. These Top Tier Topics [...]

RACHEL’S CLASSROOM OBSERVATION #4

By |2014-09-01T14:33:12-06:00September 5th, 2014|

Rachel got to observe an unnamed teacher in an unnamed school and gives her thoughts about the what she saw, comparing TPRS to traditional language instruction. I was impressed with her mastery of the terminology and categories, as well as how she captured the difference in tone, even though she has not [...]

AN ADMINISTRATOR THAT GETS IT

By |2017-10-11T13:22:16-06:00December 4th, 2013|

The administrators at my school were all replaced three years ago and I have been working to explain C.I. based teaching to them with frequent visits in the halls, invitations to come observe and forwarded emails.  I recently was observed by our assistant principal and her comments below give me hope [...]

Socrates and Teaching Foreign Language 11/2/11

By |2012-02-24T21:57:55-07:00November 2nd, 2011|

The main thing that many 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 [...]

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