fortitude to express even informally to a classmate?
up nights, you know. I had better read some responses to this. Mark ====================== Kimberly Secrist and Laura Kimoto offered many of us a potential source of insight into the mind of those students who are reticent about participating orally in the foreign language class. To wit: many FL teachers often tend to be shy outside their classroom assignment. That might be in ones church, taking university classes and so on. Careful observation of shy students or conversations with colleagues might give us some ideas about how to approach this problem in students. Laura reminds: “We as teachers just need to have a variety of ways to measure learning and participation.” That would seem to mean teachers need to have at their disposal a variety of ways in which students can be challenged to make their various marks. ====================== Bill Heller probably does in his classroom exactly what these teachers suggest, but in this 1995 letter he attempts to address the problem and express
