Developing Faculty
The Spider and the Butterfly
This perspective on remote learning and teaching may sound strange at first, but bear with me.
Distance and Online Learning
Welcome to the Online Learning World
Cross-posted on the MAFLT site: https://maflt.cal.msu.edu/2020/03/14/welcome-to-the-online-learning-world/ Friends, colleagues, students, parents of small children, lend me your ears: there are no easy answers. Education is changing before our eyes, and some of those changes will last. Some of them will not. Going remote quickly is going to tax your patience, your Read more…
Explaining Principles & Practices
To teach grammar or not to teach grammar?
Is that the question? Whether or not to teach grammar has been debated among language teachers for longer than any of us has been alive, and it will be debated when this generation of teachers is gone, too. In response to the ever-present debates about how much and whether to Read more…
Inhabiting Academia
FLT in the U.S. – Is it in crisis?
According to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Commission on Language Learning, the Joint National Committee for Languages, the U.S. Department of Education’s current International Strategy, and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), as well as a variety of articles in the media, the low Read more…
Explaining Principles & Practices
Comprehensible Input is Everywhere
Comprehensible input is everywhere. Even if our language learners would have to travel thousands of miles to meet native speakers face to face, we can still find compelling comprehensible input that will let them experience the target language in use. On the internet, CI is available on a website that Read more…
Distance and Online Learning
Confessions of an Online Professor
I have learned to embrace the inevitable. And I will confess: I like teaching online. Truly.
