tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post2001464488959820647..comments2024-03-27T08:54:51.538-04:00Comments on Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input: Semester Goals for Story-AskingSeñora Hitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-58287562788510062802016-02-06T23:05:58.032-05:002016-02-06T23:05:58.032-05:00Wow, identical lists.
That tells me I'm on th...Wow, identical lists. <br />That tells me I'm on the right track. :-) <br /><br />Ditto to everything you said above. Teaching with TPRS takes:<br /> more practice, <br /> more skills,<br /> more energy, <br /> and fast thinking from the teacher. <br />It requires more risk on the teacher's part because there is no guarantee the students will connect with the story and the story will fall flat. But, the dividends that TPRS pays in language acquisition are greater. <br /><br />"It is a necessary struggle" - so true!Señora Hitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07909827381087226676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898729898073581154.post-32307136030304457582016-02-06T15:17:24.828-05:002016-02-06T15:17:24.828-05:00Were you in my classroom recently?! THIS is the li...Were you in my classroom recently?! THIS is the list that I am working on too, every single item. Story-asking is a hard set of skills to develop, and it is often so tempting to do a movie talk or read from a TPRS novel instead (both great sources of CI and great ways to develop some of the story-asking skills)... yet story-asking is THE power activity that ushers learners from listening to production in the most efficient, effective manner. I won´t give up on compelling activities like El Internado, but when I honestly reflect on where my students' writing and speaking comes from I have to recognize that much of the "wired-in automatic response fully-acquired" stuff comes from story-asking lessons. I think most of us still struggle with story-asking, but it is a necessary struggle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com