Katie and I were talking on the walk home today: how do language teachers do it? Specifically, how do they make sense out of the gibberish students spout and keep the class on track?
A roomful of students, each grappling with Spanish in a hodgepodge of murdered tenses, mis-pronunciations, wrong word choices, bad accents, random articles and pronouns sprinkled wherever, improbable constructions, you name it. They must think"...Steve's lips are moving and sounds are coming out of his mouth... this is a Spanish class so I know he must intend it to be Spanish... yes, I'm right, that word was almost certainly Spanish... I wonder what he thinks that means? he can't possibly mean that... hmmm... maybe..."
Hats off to language teachers.
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