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How Oz!
Speaking of boxes, our students are really just little munchkins who, hiding amongst the flowers, have long been waiting for a big box to slam down on their ugly old grammar teacher witch, and wait, a… more →
Ben Slavic's Blog
How Oz!
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: Speaking of boxes, our students are really just little munchkins who, hiding amongst the flowers, ha … more →
Boxes
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: A man was carrying a very heavy wooden box on his back. The box was crammed with books and paper. So … more →
Dairy Farming
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: [Note: Byron Despres-Berry asked me if I was a dairy farmer when he saw some night owl blogs on the … more →
Reading and Spinning
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: Spinning stories or asking PQA when we read Blaine’s novels is easy. We just get some target languag … more →
A Poem
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Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: The following poem, by the elegant twentieth century French poet Jacques Prévert, to me says it all … more →
Our Greatest Challenge
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: In my view, the greatest challenge currently facing the TPRS world is to thoroughly convince other f … more →
Change
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: George Bush has been a bad president, despite honest intentions earlier on. Similarly, we must accep … more →
Phoebe's Point
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: Today Phoebe made a really good point: “I like this blog site and have been reading it for sev … more →
Traditional Teaching
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Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: For thousands of years kids learned languages by listening to them. Meaningful, comprehensible input … more →
Pop-ups
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: Pop-up grammar must be short. Like, really short. “This means that” kind of thing. Other … more →
A Lesson in Linguistics
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: I heard this one: A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. “In Engl … more →
Cheerfulness
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Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: When people think of language classes, consciously or unconsciously, they think of the textbook, the … more →
I'll Take the Porsche...
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: A person who is offered a Porsche in place of a tractor would probably choose to drive it on the sup … more →
Hobby Horses
Ben Slavic wrote 1 year ago: Q. What do you say to those who think that TPRS is about kids running around in the room, pretending … more →
the new Blainemobile
Ben Slavic wrote 2 years ago: This car talk reminds me of an old post I wrote on the TPRS listserve, in 2005, copied here: “ … more →
Quaker Oats
Ben Slavic wrote 2 years ago: This thing on the TPRS listserve about CI vs. traditional made me think of another thing someone tol … more →
Windows Vista
Ben Slavic wrote 2 years ago: When I was having my requisite new ownership hassles with Microsoft Vista, my computer guy, who is k … more →
SPONTANEITY
Ben Slavic wrote 2 years ago: To me, the word “spontaneity” defines TPRS in one word. I teach best when I am not tied … more →
