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One Student’s Reaction to Acquisition

  12/30/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My student in Spanish introduced me (via Zoom) to her former student, an impressive young man majoring in linguistics. Talking about our lessons, she mention (Continue Reading)

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More evidence of the efficacy of repetition in input

  12/06/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An article on child acquisition of the ergative forms in Basque finds that Basque children receiving bilingual input, i.e. two different languages being used in (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning, TPRS, Uncategorized

Mistakes in teaching French

  12/02/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I noted in Lesson #51 I wrote il n’a pas des amies when it should be d’amies. I am pretty sure I did not realize (Continue Reading)

Foreign language teaching & learning, TPRS

Nyah’s lesson #1 June 25, 2018

  11/29/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I am writing this up 8 months after the event and will reference subsequent developments. We went over the principles, incl. signs, comprehension checks via (Continue Reading)

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Judith lesson # Aug. 25, 2020

  08/25/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Continuing narrative but with lots of new vocabulary. Some good grammar points. Tiene la seguranza medica = she has medical insurance.  Tiene una cita para (Continue Reading)

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A New Stab At TPRS

  07/29/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

After almost eight weeks of lessons in Spanish via Zoom, a foundation has been laid. Soon I will get back to transcribing my granddaughter’s French (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Jan. 27, 2020 #

  05/31/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Long hiatus and we agreed on regular 5 day a week schedule.The purpose today was for her to notice how much she knows and think (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 11 #

  05/23/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Vous allez ecrire des notes. Why do I have to take notes?* She picked a gender neutral name for a character who was the object (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 9, 2020 #

  05/20/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I wrote the following on the flip chartNyah et sa mere ont voyage en FranceA Paris elles n’y ont trouve que de pizza et hamburger (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Dec. 28, 2019 #

  05/16/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I took my cat to the vet?Hier? ?Pas aujourd’hui, hier.Oh, yeah.**Is this the new one or the old one (story)C’est completement nouveau.Oh.*You don’t want to (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 23, 2019 #

  05/16/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Nyah’s BirthdayShe said something in French and I missed recording it! Here is the story again: Deux personnes marchaient dans la foret. Sur le sentier (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 21, 2019 #

  05/16/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Deux personnes marchaient dans la foret. Sur le sentier il y avait un serpent. A! J’ai peur des serpents, a cri une des personnes. L’autre (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Lesson Nov. 19, 2019

  05/13/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Qu’est-ce que c’est comme carnet?Oh, what kind of notebook?*Marc a un “A” dans toutes les matieres. Est-ce qu’il est un bon etudiant?Yeah.* Chez eux their (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson Nov. 13, 2019 #

  05/13/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

la cantine scolaire – school?* (I read aloud a long piece in francais courant with me  making notes on various items but overall not very (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s lesson Nov. 4, 2019 #

  05/08/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Reminder: asterisk means indicates she understood the French without props the baby eats solid food?* je ne peux plus……no more* le mais dedans le nez….what? (Continue Reading)

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Threats to the program

  04/25/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Finally I got a lesson going via an iPad. It went OK, but Nyah wanted to talk about where we were going with this. Uh-Oh. (Continue Reading)

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Ups and Downs with TPRS and the Virus

  04/14/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Just as my granddaughter was getting back into the swing of things with French, the virus hit. She has stayed away for a week or (Continue Reading)

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Nyah lesson 3/17/20

  03/18/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Long time since I’ve transcribed these lessons but I’ll start with yesterday’s in part because it was amazing. Then I’ll backtrack and catch up. I (Continue Reading)

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Tour de force

  01/30/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An appropriate title for my granddaughter’s French lesson today. For only the second time in over a year and a half I forgot to record (Continue Reading)

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The Come Back Kid – Lesson #TBA

  01/27/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Nyah has been absent from French for over a month due to college apps and illness but she came back today in a big way. (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s Breakthrough #2

  11/07/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Last breakthrough, Aquaman looking for a mermaid, saw no follow-up. Nyah has not been interested in providing details or variations in stories. But with the (Continue Reading)

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Nyah’s back

  10/17/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My granddaughter just returned from France where she had a good time with her mom. They came over yesterday to recount their adventures (some of (Continue Reading)

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News on the Nyah front

  09/11/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

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)

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