normabenesdra (benesdran@sinectis.com.ar)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:23:55 +1300
From: normabenesdra <benesdran@sinectis.com.ar> Subject: ania lianīs comments Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:23:55 +1300
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Ania Lian wrote this a few days ago:
I will show you a rather
drastic extreme of this line of thinking. My husband had a Chinese PhD
student who wanted to introduce an "eastern" element to L2-pedagogy.
Considering that there are so many opinions on how to teach a language,
the student's solution was: to keep harmony, give them all. When asked by
me, he kind of agreed to a method of, say, 2 minutes for each idea. SO we
do repetition drills for a few minutes, then grammar exercises, then a bit
of modified talk then a bit of TV, then a bit of scaffolded ZPD, then a
bit of....
I just wanted to say that that is what we do when we teach, down here in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America in our institute. In fact, we may
not devote as little as 2 minutes to each method but we usually devote 15
or 20 minutes to each different activity many times with a different
pedagogical approach. And we do this because we don4t know when a student
learns. Or how, for that matter. Since we know nothing we expose the
students to the maximum varieties of techniques and approaches and we wait
for the moment of insight, when the chips of the puzzle seem to fit and
students say, "Ah, so it was that!" and they start recognising and then
using that specific tool we had taught in so many ways! The more exposure
and the more varied, the better. I should remind the listmembers that we
teach English to Argentine residents and Spanish to foreigners.
Thank you for letting me contribute to this highly-qualified and very
interesting discussion.
My regards to everyone on the list.
Norma
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