Do children get explicitly taught the numbers from 5 to 100 in their native language? Do children get explicitly taught to say 'Please' and 'Thank you' and other polite forms? Or do they learn all of that through comprehensible input?

7. Are we allowed to use students' mother tongue in the classroom? Yes, if it helps to make the input more comprehensible.

Make learning feel like acquisition and Bob's your uncle. 33:00 love the idea of individual assignments.

Motivation is the key. Most people aren't motivated enough to do the work. We all love the idea of learning a new language but few follow up on that desire once they have to do the work and whatever tools you have( and there are so many these days) it is hard work.

Can never have enough of him!

Another amazing session by Jeff McQuillan! Can't thank him enough!

English and spanish are related making it easier for us to acquire comprehensible input when compared to not having any related foundational knowledge and just diving into chinese or korean I suppose

I want to be a master of linguistics with Dr Jeff as my tutor but I found he’s retired from being a professor at school

Unfortunately, I missed the live webinar but I watched the recorded video and enjoyed the practical tips! Thanks a lot to Kelci!

I spent 7+ years learning a second language the conventional way, some in school and some as individual hobby. And even though i did well in school, realistically my final level was barely a beginner. (As was confirmed by a comprehensive test) Then as a 19 year old i was a part of this experiment. I was placed in a foreign military academy with very strict guidelines. Foreign students were only allowed to use L2, it was absolute 100% immersion 24/7. (Kinda similar to Middlebury Language school or French Foreign Legion approach) And even though i was already an adult, i learned a second language to a near native level within a year. I could physically feel the development of a second language. And obviously i wasn't studying a second language exclusively, I was learning science, engineering, humanities, doing sports. I was having a rich learning experience while acquiring a second language at a rate that seemed magical. There are very important conditions that allow adults to learn on par with immigrant kids. One condition really. Temporarily abstain from native language and dedicate the remaining time to a second language. Regarding delibete study of grammar. Nobody was teaching me any of that. Well, I had a tutor for a few sessions, but then a school decided to forgo tutoring because our progress was too fast to keep track of. Yes, our progress, because there were 5 of us. And we all exhibited remarkable rates of improvement. We were physically separated in different battalions (dorms) and we weren't allowed to communicate. As far as explicit knowledge of L2 grammar, I FORGOT everything I knew as a beginner. I ACQUIRED grammar the same way native speakers do and I was reasonably grammatically correct. A Grammatically correct sentence SOUNDS right, incorrect sounds funny. I don't know any of textbook grammar explanations. That being said, studying L2 grammar ENTIRELY in L2 at a more advanced level could be a USEFUL tool, though not entirely necessary. Studying L2 grammar (or vocabulary) using L1 is a colossal waste of time.

Professor MQuillan has been on point. He helped a lot with my english in the past, when they had tge podcast, the free version.

Thanks God, nearly first time I have observed so warm well come and thankful attitude towards a well deserved teacher. Regards

Jeff McQuillan never ceases to share his insight and knowledge with us and we are so thankful to him for that!

Another fantastic session by Jeff McQuillan on language acquisition vs language learning and the prominent theories of Professor Krashen in Applied Linguistics.

Very fine views

Which second language did Professor McQuillan acquire by this method, rather than the 'go to university and get a degree' method?

I imran

I really enjoyed watching this as an independent language learner. Thanks!

Excellent, as a English student it was so interesting for me and I learned from it

Wow! Nooshan has perfectly native accent in english!

Can we get a link to Hasan's podcast?

Wow, only 6000 views on 1st jan 2024 ? Gotta leave a comment

❤ thanks

What an honor to sit and watch this! Thanks a million IZ!

Thank you for this presentation. Super information. At about 48:30, it seems like you are advocating teaching vocabulary in theme-based units, such as seasons, months, weather, etc. Doesn't the research show that the students retain things better when they are taught things randomly and in context, rather than in thematic units? The way vocabulary is acquired in reading and listening? Do you agree with teaching in thematic units or not and what is your basis for your belief?

This is great. Really enjoyed it. At about 47:30, you talked about bringing up grammar points after doing a reading. Shouldn't the discussion be meaning-based, as opposed to form-based? Won't it bore students and give them the idea that reading is to acquire grammar instead of reading for meaning and pleasure?

Vygotsky, Piaget, Bruner, Miller, Smith, Goodman, Krashen...

This is really interesting. I am slightly confused by the idea that the group that were told a story and did activities learnt more words versus a group that was just told the story. However, the group that just was told the story learnt more efficiently. Are we saying that the the first group had a longer session and learnt more words, but the second group had a shorter session and therefore learnt more words per minute?

I'll repeat that the podcast ESLPod by Dr Jeff McQuillan is absolutely the best!

Dr Jeff McQuillan's podcast is absolutely the best.

When is the face to face coffee meeting?

Only 289 views of this clip!!!! sad

Fantastic

Thanks to technology we can watch it from all parts of the world!

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Great, Jeff McQuillan taking IZ TTC participants' questions on February 22, 2022. Veru useful for English teacher 💕

So useful for any English teacher!

i have ADHT i can't follow along with topics for long time i get bored and i change the subject or content but DR.Jeff who only the one who able to capture my attention for long time like those webinars please we need a lot presentations from Dr jeff .. and finely my question is what do you think DR.Jeef about using flashcards to memorize the vocabularies is that kind of conscious knowledge it's not unconscious knowledge so it doesn't help to acquire the language ?

1. General vocabulary 2000- 3000 2. Technical vocabulary e.g comprehensive input, ethnography.... etc 3. Academic vocabulary

Na’vi - 0:07

Illuminating

Students are far more capable of making progress than most teachers ever imagine. At least that has been my experience here in China. Just last year, I took a student who had scored 67 on the iBT Toefl exam and in nine months, she improved her score to just over 100.

I came to China in 2011 to teach English and enjoy China for a year. 11 years later and I'm still here. I knew nearly nothing about teaching English when I got here. I was lucky enough to come across Dr. Krashen's 'The Natural Approach.' I devoured the knowledge and put it to use in the classroom quickly. As opposed to the traditional pedagogy of teaching English in China, we started out teaching and practicing comprehensible input. Our target for our students was not the Chinese gaokao exam. We decided to make TOEFL and SAT English our goal. We've taught with this goal in mind. Our results have been far beyond our expectations. We only get students who plan to study abroad. Our average student out of hundreds of students for the TOEFL exam, has been a score of 110 out of 120. Our average SAT student will score 730 on the English portion of that exam. We've assisted Chinese students who have gone on to Harvard, USC, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago and other top 2% of ranked universities in the world. We focus primary school students on conversational fluency before starting middle school. We measure this based on their need for any translation in class. The only time we use translation is when introducing new vocabulary. We first give meanings of words that we introduce in English (in class) before giving the translation. We don't give the translation if they understand it with an English definition. We have found that it takes about 225 classroom hours to get a student to conversational fluency. With another 100-125 classrooms hours, we can get them to a very high level of total fluency. At this point, they are prepared to take TOEFL or SAT exams.

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I will experiment by looking up all words but one, but I'm afraid there's no graded readers in the language I want to learn. I don't think looking up words is an illusion of learning. Especially digitally, it takes only a second to help you parse the sentence, and that helps to keep the story compelling and give you more context for the next sentence.

It escapes me how this display was put together. Mr. Chomsky is brilliant as usual but that aside again the apparent lack of the technology use is appalling.

we need more more and more presentation from D.R Jeff . he one of greatst speekers i have ever seen ♥♥

we need more more and more presentation from D.R Jeff . he one of greatst speekers i have ever seen ♥♥

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