Mira Canion

A5 Promote reading? Educating about 2 goals for reading: language acquisition and cultural. They can often use a different type of text for the novice learner. #langchat

A3 motivation, strategy use, executive function skills can be overlooked in reading instruction. Language comprehension is one of 4 categories in reading #langchat

@actfl The convention app is not saving “my schedule” selections.

TA authentic texts push out profession into camps when it might be better to show how they work together with facilitating comprehension and improving proficiency #langbook

A5 I believe the vast majority of the profession teaches explicit grammar. #langbook

A4 if a teacher speaks just 10 minutes during class, that 90% is not quite enough. Should it be 90% target input, interaction? #langbook

A4 It has always been fun seeing students at parent teacher conferences realize that I can speak English. It is game of keeping everyone in L2 because it is rather silly that a whole class is using a language that is not the fastest way to communicate #langbook

A4 It is like opening a small window of a dam, the flow of using L1 can flow out too much and you will have a tough time getting the L2 flow back #langbook

A3 With only 100 hours of real time in one year, should L1 be used to check for understanding only? To keep motivation going? #langbook

A2 how much should all learners be able to understand the target language? When is overwhelming an issue? #langbook

A2 monitoring if exchanges are interactive, when there is no engagement is it because of lack of understanding or irrelevant materials or lack of purpose in the lesson? #langbook

A1 Suggestions have been made that beginners can read a full length authentic novel. #langbook

A1 constant movement between authentic resources and leveled resources. It is hard to sustain fluency reading when the text is not grade-level. Authentic provides background knowledge #langbook

To what extent could we create shorter proficiency categories so that learners are not in the 20 year intermediate track? #langbook

May we all feel the privilege of being able to serve children and the education field, service modeled by Queen Elizabeth. #langchat

TA Community creates Immunity #langchat

“Absolutely Insightful Assessments: Connecting Better with Students” #ACTFL22 The first insight will be finding my session proposal. In-person, in-credible, in Boston. @actfl #langchat

A4 Guest musicians on shows reflect what is popular. Also Music Awards showcase songs and artists #LangChat

A3 whole class cloze listening helps students break up the sounds they hear and identify the words. Then we can interpret meaning of phrases. #langchat

A3 Narrate the music video using some of the lyrics. Storyboard the song #langchat