{"id":661,"date":"2010-03-24T00:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T05:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-03-24T00:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T05:34:03","slug":"i-introduced-an-american-language-teaching-term-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"I introduced an American language-teaching term to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I gave a seminar on integrating teaching and listening into language lessons. When we were talking about practicing sentence patterns as part of a language lesson, I asked the teachers how they teach the pattern. They said that they go over the pattern, then drill it as a whole class, in groups, with partners, until the students &#8220;get&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>I told them that this approach, called &#8220;drill and practice,&#8221; has been renamed &#8220;drill and kill&#8221; in the US. They thought that was kind of funny. I was a bit surprised that they hadn&#8217;t heard that term before. Maybe now that they know the new name, they will be motivated to seek alternative ways to practice grammar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I gave a seminar on integrating teaching and listening into language lessons. When we were talking about practicing sentence patterns as part of a language lesson, I asked the teachers how they teach the pattern. They said that they go over the pattern, then drill it as a whole class, in groups, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}