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The Student Who Translates in Their Head — And ...

You Can See It Happen There’s a specific pause a student makes when they’re translating in their head. It’s half a second longer than a thinking pause. Their eyes go...

The Student Who Translates in Their Head — And ...

You Can See It Happen There’s a specific pause a student makes when they’re translating in their head. It’s half a second longer than a thinking pause. Their eyes go...

How to Teach Writing Stamina in a Language Clas...

The Two-Sentence Problem Ask a group of language students to write about a film scene they’ve just watched — one they clearly understood, one they clearly cared about — and...

How to Teach Writing Stamina in a Language Clas...

The Two-Sentence Problem Ask a group of language students to write about a film scene they’ve just watched — one they clearly understood, one they clearly cared about — and...

The Accent Problem: How to Teach With a Film Yo...

You chose a French film. Beautiful film. Authentic dialogue, real stakes, exactly the kind of language your students need to hear. And then you played the first scene, and half...

The Accent Problem: How to Teach With a Film Yo...

You chose a French film. Beautiful film. Authentic dialogue, real stakes, exactly the kind of language your students need to hear. And then you played the first scene, and half...

Discourse Markers, Filler Words, and Flow: The ...

There is a student in every advanced class who can argue about a film scene with real vocabulary and accurate verb tenses — and still sounds like they learned Spanish...

Discourse Markers, Filler Words, and Flow: The ...

There is a student in every advanced class who can argue about a film scene with real vocabulary and accurate verb tenses — and still sounds like they learned Spanish...

The Student Who Knows More About the Culture Th...

The Student Who Knows More About the Culture Than You Do It happens, and if you teach long enough it happens more than once. You are running a French film...

The Student Who Knows More About the Culture Th...

The Student Who Knows More About the Culture Than You Do It happens, and if you teach long enough it happens more than once. You are running a French film...

Why Your Advanced Students Sound Like Textbooks...

The Grammar Is Perfect. The Register Is Wrong. You know the student. She aces every assessment. Her written work is immaculate. She can conjugate in three tenses without pausing. And...

Why Your Advanced Students Sound Like Textbooks...

The Grammar Is Perfect. The Register Is Wrong. You know the student. She aces every assessment. Her written work is immaculate. She can conjugate in three tenses without pausing. And...

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