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Re: [lojban] pedagogy and lojban
At 09:14 AM 8/1/02 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
I had some TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) training in
the Peace Corps, including a taste of the Defense Language
Institute's "wavelet" teaching system. It takes the concept of
structure drills a step further. Instead of trying to teach whole
branches of grammar at once, it divides the task into a succession of
small steps, each of which is drilled to the point of mastery before
proceeding further.
I started to make a list of Lojban language features suitable for an
introductory set of drills, but I haven't gotten far enough to
present anything.
Is anyone interested in pursuing this?
I would like to see this made an "official project", since Lojban pedagogy
is our most important need and our weakest skill (says the person who has
given up on writing a Lojban textbook twice in large part because the
pedagogy work is not far enough advanced.)
In addition to you and anyone else who wants to volunteer, I am explicitly
recruiting Gary Burgess (address in the cc: list, in case he isn't reading
the list at the moment), since he has been a DLI student as well as having
other experience in military linguist training and testing. Either of you
or someone else could serve as the "project manager".
Are you listening, Gary?
...
Of course, drill isn't the only thing needed. Drill can make the use
of structure automatic in a formal setting, but then the student
needs guided conversations where those structures can actually be
used. Games are a good way to handle that structuring.
Inventing good games, both for self-teaching and for group learning, needs
a creativity that I've never had. I hope you can do better than I did.
I have to stop now, but I will be happy to take any of these topics
up again another time.
Please do.
lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
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