To commemorate 100 posts published on Tuesday’s Tips For Staying In The Target Language, here are some Top 10 (and 15) Lists. In other news, I’ll be taking some time off from publishing these posts every Tuesday. Click here if you care to contribute opinions, comments and feedback regarding the future of this blog on a survey.
Top 10 Most Shared Posts:
- How To Avoid “Freaking Out” Novice L2 Learners When Staying In The Target Language
- How Not (I Repeat: NOT) To Assess The Progress Of L2 Students In A 90+% Target Language Classroom
- Debunking 5 “Teaching In The Target Language Myths”
- Debunking 5 MORE “Teaching In The Target Language Myths”
- A Common Teaching In The Target Language Mistake
- No Duct-Taping L2 Fruit On The Foreign Language Proficiency Tree
- Management Strategies For The 90+% Target Language Classroom: Increase Student Motivation
- My Favorite Activity For Interpersonal Mode (With Links To Handouts)
- “They Look At Me Weird” – Dealing With The Awkwardness Of Using L2
- 37 Links To Online Resources For “Teaching In The Target Language”
Top 15 Most Helpful Posts For Teachers Who Want To Start Teaching In The Target Language
- The First Week Of Staying In The Target Language With Your Students
- Q/A: What To Do On The First Week Of Class & When To Use L1
- What To Say In The Target Language On The First Day Of Class – Novice L2 Learners
- How To Manage Student Behavior & Stay In The Target Language: Increase Motivation
- Introduce New Vocabulary AND Stay In The Target Language (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8)
- Assessing A Student’s Progress In A “90+% Target Language Use” Classroom
- Turning Tedious Tasks Into Teaching In The Target Language Triumphs
- When District Expectations Make It Hard To Teach In The Target Language
- 90+% Target Language Use: How To Respond To Administrative Pushback
- Dos and Don’ts For Handouts In The 90+% Target Language Classroom
- Effective Routines For Upper Elementary L2 Learners
- Effective Routines For Lower Elementary L2 Learners
- Overcoming The Obstacles To Making Input Comprehensible
- How My Walls Help Me Stay In The Target Language
Top 10 Posts To Read If Your Students Resist Instruction In The Target Language:
- How To Avoid “Freaking Out” Novice L2 Learners When Staying In The Target Language
- “My Students Don’t Feel Comfortable When I Spend Long Amounts Of Time Teaching In The Target Language.”
- “Ahhh! How Am I Supposed To Give Activity Directions In The Target Language”
- My First Successful “Staying In The TL” Lesson
- Interpretive Mode – Build A Reluctant Student’s Confidence
- Making The Interpersonal Mode As Easy As Possible For Novice Learners (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
- ClassDojo.com & Teaching In The Target Language
- “They Look At Me Weird” – Dealing With The Awkwardness Of Using L2
- My “Staying In The Target Language” Story/Journey (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
- Helping Students NOT Feel Dumb/Stupid/Embarrassed
Top 15 Most Practical Posts:
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: “To Have” & “To Want” Verbs
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: Introducing “To NOT Want”
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: Teaching How Change In Quantity Affects The L2 Sentence
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: “To Eat” Future Tense
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: “To Eat” Past Tense
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: “To Listen” & “To Like” Verbs
- Step By Step Guide For Teaching Grammar In The Target Language: “To Go” Future, Past & Present Tense
- Using Your Hands During Interpersonal Mode Instruction
- My Favorite Activity For Interpersonal Mode (With Links To Handouts)
- Blindfolded – 5 Tips For Using A Blindfold In Your Foreign Language Classroom
- Lionel Messi & A Quick Tip For Staying In The Target Language
- Quick Tips: 4 Ideas For Getting Your Students To Use The Target Language
- Quick Pics Tip: How To Mention “Happy New Year” With Novice L2 Learners
- Technology To Help You Teach In the Target Language: EDpuzzle
- You Gotta See This Resource From Post-Primary Languages Initiative
Top 8 Most Reflective/Thoughtful Posts:
- How Not (I Repeat: NOT) To Assess The Progress Of L2 Students In A 90+% Target Language Classroom
- Bad Oatmeal & A Simple, Sort Explanation Of How To Stay In The Target Language With Novice Students
- What I Learned About Comprehensible Input From My Crawling Infants
- The Vocab List Analogy
- No Duct-Taping L2 Fruit On The Foreign Language Proficiency Tree
- Language To Language OR Language To Living
- Being In Diapers And Staying In The Target Language
- “They Look At Me Weird” – Dealing With The Awkwardness Of Using L2
Top 10 Nerdiest Posts
- Why Do I “Use Fewer Words?” …Input Has Quantitative Qualities
- “Why Aren’t They Getting This?” – Input: Multiple Forms & ICI
- Forms Of Input – Linguistic & Extralinguistic
- Forms Of Input – Representational Input
- Forms Of Input – Gesticulated Input
- Forms Of Input – Constructed Situational Input
- Forms Of Input – Incidental Situational Input
- Forms Of Input – Inflectional Input
- The Key: “Pairing”
- Overcoming The Obstacles To Making Input Comprehensible
Top 10 Posts With Video Demonstrations:
- What To Say In The Target Language On The First Day Of Class – Novice L2 Learners
- Video Recording: 1st Graders Learning Days Of The Week & Colors In The Target Language
- Video Recording: 5th Graders Learning “To Be” Verb Conjugations In The Target Language
- Video Recording – Comprehensible L2 Immersion Environment
- Senor Howard’s Video & Why He Does What He Does (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- Introduce New Vocabulary AND Stay In The Target Language (“i+1)
- Making The Interpersonal Mode As Easy As Possible For Novice Learners
- Demo Lesson On Video: Cinco De Mayo
- Demo Lesson On Video: 2014 World Cup
- You Gotta See This Resource From Post-Primary Languages Initiative
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