After having read the posts on the list about the Pimsleur Method, I decided to retry this methodology for learning a language. I had tried the Pimsleur tapes for Spanish and German when I was young, but never really followed through.
As Maltese is my family’s native language, I wanted to learn something as close as …
I know that there are lots of ways to teach the colors but the following technique has worked really well for me over the past few years and I thought that I would share it. I’m sure that I didn’t invent the wheel here, but it is something that just developed rather than my reading …
Read more »As good language teachers, we all know the more we stay in the target language, the better it is for our students. We know that immersion is the best way to learn a language and want to recreate as much of that “immersion” atmosphere as possible inside of our classroom.
For most of us, it’s not …
There are a lot of questions on the moreTPRS list regarding various participation systems. This is what I do in my classroom.
For me, participation cannot be a graded item. What I mean by that is, that participation, effort, behavior, cannot be calculated into the letter grade of the student. At my school, like many, we …
Although I have been using TPRS® for the past six years and have had excellent results, this year, I have had the best results ever in a level-one class! My Spanish 1s are learning at a far greater rate than ever before and have been understanding Spanish since day one!
All of this thanks to Ben …