Re: kokoro ga komotte


Bart Mathias wrote:
I didn't know about "outdated," having no background in language
pedagogy per se. It just seemed to me that they were nonsense as
written--they were, or could too easily be for all but the most
motivated student--sounds divorced from meaning. I figured out ways to
get the meaning back in and still drill the forms.

Bart

When we did JSL at the University of Minnesota under Professor Polly
Szatrowski, in the mid-90s, all the drills in class utilized some kind
of realia or materials for meaning. Of course, at the higher levels
the drills were too complicated to do much of that, but they were also
complicated enough to provide their own context.

I wish I had appreciated drill work back then the way I do now. I
probably would have been a lot more fluent a lot faster.

Josh Reyer

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