tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post6303192841400833640..comments2023-08-02T05:42:22.388-05:00Comments on Education of a Pondering Mom: <br> Take Time to Smell the Coffee: Prepping for a presentation on C. MAson & Foreign Language Learning Pt. IJavamomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00759860713807731832noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-55844284686727769422016-04-27T09:32:50.470-05:002016-04-27T09:32:50.470-05:00I am so glad I found your site! I heard you on a C...I am so glad I found your site! I heard you on a Circe podcast and was so excited to hear you making connections between Gouin, CM, and TPRS. I teach Spanish and am working hard to revamp my curriculum to be more comprehensible-input-based. Two of my classes are reading Piratas del Caribe right now, and I LOVE having my students reading real stories. <br /><br />The Spanish teaching world right now is all abuzz, talking about throwing out the textbook and using novels. None of these are new ideas, of course-- CM followers have been advocating living books for decades. :) Funny how ideas circle around!Spanish Mamahttp://spanishmama.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-38635174573095522292012-04-13T15:31:55.922-05:002012-04-13T15:31:55.922-05:00I read this PR article about using phonetic traini...I read <a href="http://www.amblesideonline.org/PR/PR19p900TeachingFrench.shtml" rel="nofollow">this PR article</a> about using phonetic training in the teaching of French... I found it interesting in my study of teaching language and even more so in light of my latest Gouin findings and your related comments to him using charts and such. :)<br /><br />very interesting stuff. <br />thanks for this post.<br /><br />amy in peruamy in peruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14514765606705513864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-77046875557777226232010-09-05T17:39:07.358-05:002010-09-05T17:39:07.358-05:00I just stumbled on your enlightening post while bl...I just stumbled on your enlightening post while blogging our plan for Spanish this year. My husband and I are trying to teach our daughter (who is 21yo and autistic) Spanish using Mason's ideas by focusing on building her ear with series stories and nursery songs. After three weeks, she is enjoying it and picking up new vocabulary, phrases, and even sentences.walkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05046468024103932112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-61969943110165390892010-05-12T10:28:41.090-05:002010-05-12T10:28:41.090-05:00That would be CM's other recommendations... so...That would be CM's other recommendations... sorry about that. I wonder who else she bounced ideas off of. We do have PR articles and the schedules, but which came first, her ideas or theirs? I know it really doesn't matter, except in the case of Gouin! Very interesting stuff.Javamomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00759860713807731832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-7989268372924038252010-05-12T10:26:23.493-05:002010-05-12T10:26:23.493-05:00p.s. Gouin also recommended / showed grammar chart...p.s. Gouin also recommended / showed grammar charts, parsing, etc...some of which shows up in the appendices!! Okay, no one talks about that when talking about FL and CM...they only talk about the oral lesson or recommend our modern curriculae or program choices. I myself have struggled with juggling the workbook exercises, but some of them are not anti-Gouin, and if CM really sets Gouin up as the philosphy/method of choice, then we can see that grammar charts and conjugation were not taboo! (Especially after PLENTY of what is not called "Comprehensible Input."<br /><br />The "steps in a series" are not the end-all of G's method. Then we must remember to add in the other recommendations of Folk songs, poetry, history, etc.<br /><br />How's your latte? :-)Javamomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00759860713807731832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-48226549746787077002010-05-12T10:01:39.721-05:002010-05-12T10:01:39.721-05:00The difference is subtle, and it does not rule out...The difference is subtle, and it does not rule out the example completely. No, it fits well enough, especially for younger students who may have a French governess. ;-) (or a Spanish house cleaner. But if a person only read that, they might think that's all they need to apply.Javamomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00759860713807731832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-84270970775513256872010-05-12T09:57:55.926-05:002010-05-12T09:57:55.926-05:00Katie, Are you ready for this? It was Pestalozzi, ...Katie, Are you ready for this? It was Pestalozzi, Froebel, and H. Spencer! <br /><br />I completely relate to fine-tuning methods over time. Who knows what I'll be doing in five years after the last one graduates, but I do think I might still be involved in homeschooling somehow, which I did not believe last month or even last week!<br /><br />I think that makes it harder to pin-point a complete view of CM until one has 1) read and *understood* her own words (don't we know it), compbined with the examples and schedules to which we have access. Make me more picky about curriculae out there , or more specifically, how I use (or recommend using) those tools.<br /><br />There is a difference in what CM recommended on pg. 80 and then on that section from 300 @ Gouin. But she still did not share firm examples until the specifc lesson examples in Vol. 3. I would so love to know the timing of all that more clearly. <br /><br />But no matter. What it really helps me see is how everything that she recommended can be applied over many years (if the students begin young) to really get in all the suggestions and a beautiful manner (not crammed into a couple years). <br /><br />Those words seem obvious, I know. But to truly see them for what they represent, and what they convey...powerful, powerful method.<br /><br />I'm still amazed at how things can pop out so distinctly after a decade or more of reading her writings. Hmmm, what does Teresa say? :-) Inspired by God? I believe so.Javamomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00759860713807731832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988320.post-73962328970407188962010-05-12T06:46:11.490-05:002010-05-12T06:46:11.490-05:00Me, I want to know about Gouin's philosophers,...Me, I want to know about Gouin's philosophers, and how CM agreed and disagreed!<br /><br />I have often wondered how CM would have applied today's technology, if it had been available in her day. She wasn't too excited about photos or movies, although both were in their infancy and not very high in quality, and since she tended to refine her opinions as she went (don't we all?), she may have eventually seen value in certain uses of the visual media. Or maybe not. Audio recording was in its infancy as well, but I don't recall that she ever made mention of it.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13875603488434952711noreply@blogger.com