tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838882378909693892.post6518893338545240120..comments2024-02-03T10:59:00.385-05:00Comments on Toda-lly Comprehensible Latin: CampsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838882378909693892.post-21791235861136903802017-07-25T12:16:04.417-04:002017-07-25T12:16:04.417-04:00Thanks for the comment. Glad to hear about your jo...Thanks for the comment. Glad to hear about your journey with CI. Yep, seeing CI in action as opposed to solely reading about it is a huge mind shift. I would suggest that you experience learning a language via CI, such as a Fluency Fast class like Mandarin with Linda Li. This summer's Fluency Fast experience has completely widened and broadened my view of CI, since I experienced it first hand. I can honestly say that it works!Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12196810680408675365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838882378909693892.post-91670099379035130002017-07-07T16:15:24.813-04:002017-07-07T16:15:24.813-04:00Your blog definitely encourages people to incorpor...Your blog definitely encourages people to incorporate CI into their teaching, even if it's slow and even "with" Grammar Translation . <br />When I first met you, and Rachel (Although not Miriam or Bob yet) it was at the GCA conference. I had never heard of CI, and a friend from college described it in not very flattering terms.<br />Nevertheless, I wanted to be a "fun" teacher, and have fun activities. I was always looking for activities, so I scoured your blog for some new activities to try. I read your bio and, frankly, was a bit put off by it. I was very attached to grammar then.<br />I still used your activities. My students liked them, and I could see them improve. I kept using your activities until one day I found that going over the first declension wasn't "working" as well as just doing the activities - it just didn't seem to fit. Shortly after that I visited Parkview, and I firmly believe that people can talk about CI all they want, but nothing short of seeing someone like you, Bob, Rachel, or Miriam in action will really change minds.<br />I wound up untextbooking last year - haphazardly. I did not follow any of the advice I have read on implementing CI slowly and in stages - I went whole-hog. It wasn't horrible. My classes were much better, but I was definitely overworked. This summer I'm hoping to get some good planning done before August.<br />Now when I read your bio I am not at all put-off. I'm not sure what exactly it is, but it is definitely hard to talk about different pedagogies without making someone with an differing view feel excluded or looked down on. I noticed it this past GJCL from the other side - I was talking with another teacher about using novellas and felt very condescended to about what I had been doing (Oddly, she focused on vocab retention as the deficiency with CI, as opposed to forms).<br />Long-story-short,incorporating your activities led to me switching how I looked at teaching without ever being "convinced" by any promotion of or argument for CI.<br />So thanks! this blog is an incredible resource! It's led me down such an interesting road, and to so many new resources! I'm looking forward to trying to incorporate more new and interesting things, like Tasks. So thank you so much for this!<br />Magister Watkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01447269297382747527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838882378909693892.post-31974139626908845142017-06-27T09:40:10.621-04:002017-06-27T09:40:10.621-04:00Brave post, Silvi! Thank you for putting yourself ...Brave post, Silvi! Thank you for putting yourself out there.Iohannes Ilicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826205591384307305noreply@blogger.com