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| Title | More Ideas for Promoting Target Language Usage |
| Body | When I have subbed for Spanish teachers, sometimes I have the students wondering whether I am able to understand English. Other times I play the "Star Wars" game -- I understand English but can't speak it. If a student pretends not to understand Spanish, instead of giving in, I up the level slightly. (The hoped-for conclusion in their subconscious is "If I try to make it easier, it gets harder instead.") If I really have to say something that some can't understand, I might ham it up a little and solicit "help" from another student, i.e., ¿Cómo se dice ... en ingles?" But I can figure out some way to get almost any message across in Spanish. Like someone else said, if I can't, maybe I'm teaching at the wrong level. If we can make a three-year-old understand us in the L1, why should communicating in the L2 with a teenager be impossible? I have never had a regular teacher complain that I used too much L2, even if they don't use as much. Groleau, W. Keeping in the target language. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (2 Feb. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-03-19 20:10:00 |
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