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Back to School | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
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A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. September 15, 2013. It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a language classroom in the role of student. But, as a way of improving my Spanish, it seems as good a place to start as any. (And I might even discover some things about classrooms that I didn’t know). How will instruction help? I have to say that I was a little nonplussed by the prospect of ‘ almost. Private lessons’. I’m planning to enlist a private teacher later on, but in the meantime I’...
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Formulae for success? | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
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A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. October 6, 2013. I am compulsively devouring phrases. I gobble up expressions like. It upsets me) and. Qué buen rollo tiene. How nice he is). It’s not just my reading of the literature on phraseology that impels me. It’s a gut-feeling that these phrases offer a shortcut to fluency, accuracy and idiomaticity. As a youngster I was a nerd avant la lettre,. This is true for first language acquisition and, arguably, for a second language too. ‘From the per...
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Expensive reading? | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
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A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. October 13, 2013. I’m about to embark on another long conference crawl, so I’ll be away from any direct contact with Spanish for two weeks. How can I maintain the momentum (that already seems to have been flagging since I took my intensive course at the end of the summer)? Fewer now that it is online, of course), let’s say I read 5000 words 300 days a year. That makes my annual exposure to written Spanish in the region of 1.5m words of running tex...If st...
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I did it! | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
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A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. December 8, 2013. 8220;Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”. The same might be said of my Spanish-mediated presentation last week. Not that I did it well, but that I did it at all. It When it was over, I walked home saying to myself a thousand times ‘I did it! Did what, exactly? Did I do it? Apart from that, what have I learned in these three months? More than ...
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Back to School | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
https://scottthornburyblog.com/2013/09/15/back-to-school
A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. September 15, 2013. It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a language classroom in the role of student. But, as a way of improving my Spanish, it seems as good a place to start as any. (And I might even discover some things about classrooms that I didn’t know). How will instruction help? I have to say that I was a little nonplussed by the prospect of ‘ almost. Private lessons’. I’m planning to enlist a private teacher later on, but in the meantime I’...
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I did it! | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
https://scottthornburyblog.com/2013/12/08/i-did-it/comment-page-1
A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. December 8, 2013. 8220;Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.”. The same might be said of my Spanish-mediated presentation last week. Not that I did it well, but that I did it at all. It When it was over, I walked home saying to myself a thousand times ‘I did it! Did what, exactly? Did I do it? Apart from that, what have I learned in these three months? More than ...
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Expensive reading? | The (De-)Fossilization Diaries
https://scottthornburyblog.com/2013/10/13/expensive-reading
A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. October 13, 2013. I’m about to embark on another long conference crawl, so I’ll be away from any direct contact with Spanish for two weeks. How can I maintain the momentum (that already seems to have been flagging since I took my intensive course at the end of the summer)? Fewer now that it is online, of course), let’s say I read 5000 words 300 days a year. That makes my annual exposure to written Spanish in the region of 1.5m words of running tex...If st...
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Leoxicon: On (and off) the wall vocabulary activities
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Leo Selivan's blog for EFL/ESL teachers. Activities, ideas and useful tips with a lexical touch. Oct 31, 2014. On (and off) the wall vocabulary activities. I often make students (and teachers I work with) get out of their seats. I think movement in the classroom is important whether you believe in the now hotly debated concept of learning styles. Or because cognition is embodied. Apart from onion ring debates and mingling activities, there are many movement activities you can do using classroom walls.
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