These staple expressions will help your novice learners engage with you in authentic communication so they can help you maintain FLOW in the target language. Students will be empowered to express emotion and opinion and show their true personality with meaningful rejoinders. Now
Realities Not Normally Seen
Krista Tippett’s show On Being offers us perspectives on spirituality as it manifests in different places, professions and people. Parker Palmer writes regular blog posts for her and, more often then not, they are incredible. This recent post struck me square
Feedback from Grad Level Methods Class Demo
For the last 6 years or so, I’ve been asked to demonstrate TPRS and Teaching with Comprehensible Input to graduate level methods courses taught at private universities in the Twin Cities area. One of the classes I’ve been to most
Laura’s Visit
I already told you about Jessie’s Visit. Laura Abuhl also came to visit recently all the way from North Dakota! She observed for 2 1/2 days! Laura teaches in a private school with smaller class sizes than I have. She teaches
Right phrase. Right time. Right tone.
A colleague of mine who attended iFLT 15 and observed how I use rejoinders in my classroom just relayed a cute little story that dovetails well with why I teach my students to respond with rejoinders and, in fact, why