This summer proved a bust. What was supposed to be between 5 and 7 visits a week turned out to be more like three. Too (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
My new Web site
Culture and context with picture files
08/25/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe term picture files goes back for me to the late Tracy Terrell’s book Dos Mundos. My several thousand pictures (cut from magazines) are categorized (Continue Reading)
Views and examples of acquisition of a FL via CI
08/13/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday is the final day of IFLT, and it has been such a great conference. Yesterday morning, I got the chance to observe Linda Li teach Mandarin, (Continue Reading)
Today is the day
07/10/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday is the day I do what I was supposed to do initially: circle. As I have reported in my earlier write-ups of our sessions, (Continue Reading)
TPRS with Nyah One Year Update
07/08/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt the end of last month we reached one year that we started lessons. That is equivalent to a little over a third on a (Continue Reading)
An interesting crossing of mind related concepts
05/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI read this in a psych report: “…. distinction between capacity to learn i.e. intellectual capacity to learn discrete bits of information and his ability (Continue Reading)
Plans for upcoming lessons
05/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt the end of the month, my granddaughter will begin putting in more than the 5 day a week schedule for her French lessons. She (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lessons
05/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt this point Nyah has put in 64 hours of instruction. That is a bit over one third of an academic year. Ben Slavic says (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s requests on April 22, 2019
04/22/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentIn today’s lesson (to be written up later), Nyah came up with some encouraging requests. One was to begin reading. I had already scouted out (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #111, April 8, 2019
04/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentInitially we did some personalized stuff and I did a very poor job getting her to understand ‘son’, her. tprs says tell them what it (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #115 April 15 vr #24
04/16/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI had to deal with “teal”, the color of the pen she wanted to use to take notes. I had no idea what ‘teal’ looks (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson April 12, # 114
04/12/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentShe taught me a lesson in tprs today. She did not recall ‘conte de fees’ = fairy tales and I tried to remind her by (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson 112 April 9, 2019
04/09/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI didn’t record this session but we did just one thing. I took the first chapter of the tprs book Pauvre Anne and wrote on (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson # 110 March 29, 2019
03/30/2019 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsI gave Nyah a template for a fairy tale – conte de fees – hoping to get her to create a story. It went: Once (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #107 March 26, 2019
03/26/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday was the first time in a long time I tried classic tprs 3 sentences with 3 structures and circled everything methodically. Well, close. The (Continue Reading)
Observations on tprs teaching one student
03/25/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentSince I’ve fallen so far behind – to be remedied tonight – in transcribing parts of the lessons, I thought it would be good to (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #100 March 13, 2019
03/25/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentGoing over the script of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge cartoon. Started by playing the video from the beginning. An argument broke out over wearing something, (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #101 March 14, 2019
03/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentFinish cartoon Le Petit Chaperon Rouge at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OsRljQSbw I explained that I show her these videos not to teach her French but to show her (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #102 March 15,2019
03/23/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentI provided post-its with names of places on the map of the forest and she places them on the spot, e.g. la riviere goes on (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #103 March 19, 2019
03/22/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWent over verb charts. When I pointed to the alternation between acute and grave accents in the conjugations, she asked what the difference was, showing (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #104 March 20
03/22/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentShe always reminds me to write the English for the French. Comment s’appelle la femme du president? Thinking I meant Trump, she couldn’t remember. I (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s March 21 tprs lesson #105
03/22/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLa porte du garage ne se leve pas, I said as an opener, se lever being a word we only used once some time ago (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s March 6 tprs lesson #96
03/09/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentLooking at my map of the forest Little Red Riding Hood walks through, Nyah saw a fish in the lake and said “poisson”, the first (Continue Reading)