After 9 years of involuntary CI
How 9 years of involuntary comprehensible input can have great effect. What started as an experiment ("would it be possible for a Dutch...
The real power behind repetition
Say you wanted to learn to play tennis. Would hitting the ball a hundred times from the same angle be the best way to learn it? You will...
How to talk about TPRS/CI without creating resistance so people will listen
When we started doing workshops on TPRS, people used to show a lot of resistance, or even react with anger to what we were saying. In the...
Why I like Circling
I like circling. And not only do my students also like it when I circle (or in any other way build in repetitions of sentences and...
Did I just say "Comprehension Checks"?
In an interesting conversation I had one summer with the amazing Beniko Mason  about her Story Listening approach, I asked her how she...
Tools or trust: what does a CI-newbie need?
When I started to learn Spanish (or English, for that matter), I first learned simple things. Simple ways to ask directions, find...