Yahoo! I just bit the bullet and registered for the 2011 National TPRS conference in ST. Louis, MO. Sure, it's expensive (especially when I'm getting married, going on a honeymoon, a full time grad student, and a poor starting teacher), but I'm super excited to go.
Gus and I talked about it today at lunch. We decided the sooner I start investing in myself, the bigger the return will be later. I might go for a couple of years successively, but I might eventually be able to go and be a presenter instead of an attendee. Who knows.
Another big reason that I'm so excited to go, is to better my craft of TPRS/CI. I've been reading a lot of studies for my literature review for my graduate class this quarter and TPRS/CI seems to be the only logical, supported, efficient way to teach students to acquire a second language. Research (credible research) supports the comprehensible input hypothesis over all other SLA hypotheses. Thus, I feel that the best move I can make as a highly qualified professional is to push myself to push my students' acquisition of Spanish through TPRS.
Let the countdown begin!
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