bs2Jul 12, 2023
For the last ten years or so I've been re-working this way of teaching a few "acts"(verbs) combined with "directions"(prepoositions etc.) from _English Through Pictures_ book 1 by I.A. Richards and Christine Gibson. The 4-koma, KiShoTenKetsu-like layout is good for the little book and Mastodon posts. But a more consistent and gradual 5-koma sequence could make it easier for harried, distracted students to see the 3-tense pattern. Usually I skip "it" during a 7- to 10-class courses.
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Sometimes students give me permission to use their drawings of 5koma sequences that make use of the sentences we work with in class. It takes me a long time to get digital pictures of the drawings, then convert them jpgs to svgs. A jpgs-to-svgs scripts help with the process but unclear/dark jpgs need bitmap trace tuning in Inkscape. Would be great if everyone had Free bitmap and svg editing software and Fediverse accounts for sharing sequences like this.

^1 https://codeberg.org/bsmall2/racket-picture-showing/src/branch/main/scripts
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racket-picture-showing

Learning racket pict and slideshow while making slides for various purposes including the purpose of learning from a Japanese class about Microbes.

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It would be great if students had fediverse accounts and shared their langauge-learning sequences in OnLine-facilitated communities. The drawings should be produced with Free software too. People could transfer drawing from paper to svg, or draw directly to digital with Inkscape or Krita.. There's probably a way to do this with Racket's Pict too.. But for now I think jamming the first 2-koma together is the easiest way to get 4-koma posts from our 5-koma work. #EPGDM #TEFL
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Show threadBrian SmallJul 12, 2023

Bill Templer keeps me focussed on simplicity:

.> This is a paper about the need for a fundamental rethink of what we are doing. Especially for the many of us teaching English as an international language (EIL) to non-elite students on the myriad peripheries. It argues for flexibly re-exploring in depth the simplified auxiliary language BASIC developed by C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards and their associates, along with Richard's amplified version Every Man's English, attuned to the needs of the mass teaching and learning of EIL today.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081204112933/http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep05/mart05.htm#C5

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David Graddol provide more motivation to focus on a direct, simple approach to low-burden widely-useful English for "NonElite" learners.
> . Within traditional EFL methodology there is an inbuilt ideological positioning of the student as outsider and failure – however proficient they become...

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/case-studies-insights-and-research/english-next
- https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/pub_english_next.pdf

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Show threadBrian SmallJul 12, 2023
With Inkscape I was able to put the pictures togehter. All of the pictures are together in one image now. To make a square image putting the 5-koma sequence into a 4-koma sequence seems good. If I put the 1st and 2nd panels of the 5-koma sequence togethe the sentences for each picture are:


1.
- 一 (4) This is a man.
- 二 (4) This his a hat.
- 三 (4) This is his head. optional
- 四 (4) The hat is on his head.
- 五 (4) This is his hand.

2.
- 一 (8) He will take the hat off his head.
3.
- 一 (8) He is taking the hat off his head.
4.
- 一 (6) The hat was on his head.
- 二 (6) The hat is in his hand.

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I think misskey let me upload and svg file, but automagially converted it to png... Normally that would be helpful but I meant to upload a png with a white background slipped under the black lines. Without a white background the line drawing are hard to see in some contexts..

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