Mrs D's Funny Little Classroom

A lot of teachers who say they are "eclectic" or "communicative" have a quick glance at TPRS and say, oh, that's a l...

I'm doing a long translation in a short time frame, so I don't have much leisure to post, though there are several things that I wan...

Until recently most of my private students have been adults.  And almost all the young people I had for lessons were actually studying Engli...

I know Michael Miller as a hearty fellow who handles a lot of the technical problems at National TPRS Conferences and is a jovial Master of ...

In the traditional textbooks there is always a chapter on telling time.   An explanation followed by examples and very often clock faces ev...

As I explained, one of my New Year's Resolutions was to listen to films in German and try to reactivate the German I learned in college ...

In 2013 I am going to .... use Krashen's ideas to acquire some German.  This will be a real test of comprehensible input because I do...

A few years ago I refused to give private lessons.  Partly because I felt I needed all my energy for my regular classes and partly because ...

Stephen Krashen has been studying the question for almost his entire career.  His research gave birth to "The Natural Approach", w...

In 1967 I received a letter from the Peace Corps saying that I was accepted as a Volunteer trainee and assigned to teaching English in east ...

The story behind the poem .... When I was a little girl my mother bought Golden Books for me to read.  They were square little books of tw...

How do you respond to senseless violence? When I first heard about the killings in Newton, Connecticutt, I was, of course, appalled.  I d...

Graham Greene once said that France is the only country in the world where waiters and prostitutes don't hesitate to correct your gramma...

How to read with students Research, intuition and experience agree that students who read extensively in their second language acquire...

In a TPRS class the teacher can ask one of the students to retell the story. Generally we do this after we have asked the story and the stu...