Dear All,
The blog has been permanently moved to teflreflections.wordpress.com This particular post can be found here: http://teflreflections.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/be-fluent-in-a-language-in-6-months-mission-impossible/ I'm not going to publish anything on the blogspot address any more, and I'll delete the blog within a week or two.
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Thanks for reading and commenting on the posts here, and I hope to see you soon on wordpress.
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Marek Kiczkowiak
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Be fluent in a language in 6 months - mission impossible?
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Geile Scheiße, Mann! Das sieht doch mal nach nem Plan aus :) Ich bin nun schon seit deinen letzten beiden Posts ganz fasziniert von der Idee und finds spitze, wie du so zielstrebig und vor allem öffentlich an die Sache rangehst! Bin auf jeden Fall auf die Videos gespannt... Ich habe mir die drei Polyglots angeschaut und mich gefragt warum Chris sagt, ein Lang.parent sollte einen nicht korrigieren. Ich mag jedoch, dass er die konkretesten Tipps gibt. Ich habe eine eigene Liste mit diesen Tipps auch für meine Schüler zusammen gebastelt und auch schon positives Feedback bekommen :) Also darüber zu lernen und es selbst zu versuchen gibt einem als Lehrer tolle Möglichkeiten es an seine Schüler weiterzugeben. Ich drück dir jedenfalls die Daumen bei deinem Projekt :) And I did write this in german to give you a chance to practice it, as you mention :P
ReplyDeleteDanke Gurmasi :) Ich bin auch auf die Videos un die Ideen gespannt, wie du von meinem Blog sehen kannst.
DeleteI'll reply in English, so other people can follow as well:
Gurmasi really enjoyed the video but was surprised that Chris mentions over and over again the importance of NOT being corrected, which is the opposite to what Sid advises.
What Chris really suggests is lack of overt correction, i.e. You can't say I go yesterday, you should say.... He advocates recasting, that is repeating what the learner has said with a different intonation to draw their attention to the mistake, i.e. You go yesterday?; or repeating the correct option: So you went yesterday, did you?
This supposedly creates a safe and non-threatening environment in which the learner can practise without getting stressed out. Personally, I think a bit of different types of correction is needed, depending on the classroom situation, i.e. you're probably less likely to go for the overt one in a warmer. There is some evidence that suggests overt correction has much better effects on learners' progress.
In my opinion, often students will just ignore the recast. And many of them really want to be corrected by the teacher.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for your comment, Gurmasi. Glad you enjoy the blog.