A5 Promote reading? Educating about 2 goals for reading: language acquisition and cultural. They can often use a different type of text for the novice learner. #langchat

A3 motivation, strategy use, executive function skills can be overlooked in reading instruction. Language comprehension is one of 4 categories in reading #langchat

TA authentic texts push out profession into camps when it might be better to show how they work together with facilitating comprehension and improving proficiency #langbook

A5 I believe the vast majority of the profession teaches explicit grammar. #langbook

A4 if a teacher speaks just 10 minutes during class, that 90% is not quite enough. Should it be 90% target input, interaction? #langbook

A4 It has always been fun seeing students at parent teacher conferences realize that I can speak English. It is game of keeping everyone in L2 because it is rather silly that a whole class is using a language that is not the fastest way to communicate #langbook

A4 It is like opening a small window of a dam, the flow of using L1 can flow out too much and you will have a tough time getting the L2 flow back #langbook

A3 With only 100 hours of real time in one year, should L1 be used to check for understanding only? To keep motivation going? #langbook

A2 how much should all learners be able to understand the target language? When is overwhelming an issue? #langbook

A2 monitoring if exchanges are interactive, when there is no engagement is it because of lack of understanding or irrelevant materials or lack of purpose in the lesson? #langbook

A1 Suggestions have been made that beginners can read a full length authentic novel. #langbook

A1 constant movement between authentic resources and leveled resources. It is hard to sustain fluency reading when the text is not grade-level. Authentic provides background knowledge #langbook

To what extent could we create shorter proficiency categories so that learners are not in the 20 year intermediate track? #langbook

May we all feel the privilege of being able to serve children and the education field, service modeled by Queen Elizabeth. #langchat

TA Community creates Immunity #langchat