Become a more confident language teacher.
Last week, I happened to look up the music video for the song “Enamórate” by DVicio. I like the song okay, but the music video leaves much to be desired. I shared my thoughts about it on Facebook. The next day, Jody Noble seriously one-upped me. She shared this music video and tagged me in the…
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Today is the most exciting day of the year for anyone whose teaching or learning has been touched by TPRS®! It is {inter}National TPRS® Day! …not yet an official holiday, but it should be! Today is Blaine Ray’s birthday, and what better day to celebrate the JOY that we have found through his creation, TPRS®! Like any child, TPRS®…
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The Best Year Sale ever is ON! Save 28 percent today and tomorrow on everything in my store. If that’s not enough, read on to find out how to win one of two $50.00 gift cards to Teachers Pay Teachers! LIKE – LINK – LOVE GIVEAWAY LIKE The Comprehensible Classroom on Facebook On the Facebook…
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Hundreds of teachers entered, but only ONE emerged victorious. iFLT 2016 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, promises to be an incredible conference experience. With both Stephen Krashen AND Bill VanPatten in attendance, it might as well be considered a crash course in second language acquisition research and theory! Combine their presentations with a full four-day schedule of workshops…
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It’s that time of year…time for one lucky reader to win a FREE registration to iFLT 2016! There are many excellent language teaching conferences happening this spring and summer. Regional organizations like CSCTFL and SCOLT will be hosting their conferences within the next few weeks, the TELL Collab will be hosting conferences in Nashville this April…
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It’s been a fun Hanukkah, hasn’t it? I have so enjoyed reading through the comments and posts that you have made during this last week, and I will be sifting through the resources that you added to the target structure database, the MovieTalk database, and the authentic resource database (you have 8 hours left to enter…
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My love affair with Textivate began over three years ago. You can read about it in my blog archives, or you could hop over to the iFLT/NTPRS/ CI Teaching group on Facebook, or the MoreTPRS listserv, or Cynthia “The Queen of Web 2.0 Tool Reviews” Hitz’ blog to read about how other TPRS®/CI teachers are using this excellent resource to…
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When you are in the weeds with 175 students creating papers for you to grade and issues for you to address, and you have just 45 minutes of planning time every day…well, something’s gotta give. Or maybe you have a delightful workload but are still figuring out this thing they call TCI and you have no…
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Giveaway night 1: The Big CI Book by Ben Slavic! The Big CI Book is “A Step by Step Survival Guide for Foreign Language Teachers. At 400 pages, it vastly expands on the skills and strategies we currently have available to us in TPRS/CI instruction…[it] describes in detail twenty-seven strategies [and] fifteen skills. This vastly expanded and new…
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Tonight (Sunday night) is the first night of Hanukkah, and therefore the first night of my Eight Nights of Hanukkah giveaways! Here is how this will work: Each evening at 6:00pm EST (2:00pm AKST), I will announce that night’s giveaway. I might announce it on this blog, or I might announce it on my Facebook page. Or maybe…
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