14. “Accent” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You want to hunt a target skill, so therefore you need to find a fluent fool. You choose the fluent fool according to the accent you’re hunting, or simply accept… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Techniques
13. “Same Conversation” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You’re fluency hunting a fluent fool, and choose the most common activity in that skill to start at the beginning with the simplest level of performance, that first bite-sized piece…. Read more »
12. “How Fascinating!” – the Top 20 Techniques of WAYK
You’re fluency hunting, and to maintain game flow and momentum, you call “How Fascinating!” every time you or another player gets stuck or struggles. You also call “How Fascinating!” to… Read more »
11. “Signing” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You’re fluency hunting with fellow players. In order to rapidly communicate team strategies in the form of techniques, you are all signing. You’re hunting a target language from your fluent… Read more »
10. “Start at the Beginning/Start Over” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You’ve found a fluent fool, and you want to fluency hunt their ability. So you start at the beginning, and during your hunt, whenever you get lost or confused, you… Read more »
9. “Full” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You’ve set-up a series of same conversations with a fluent fool, for fluency hunting their language. You know you’re at your best if you’re Warm/Fed/Rested/Safe/Willing, and after playing for a… Read more »
8. “Warm/Fed/Rested/Safe/Willing” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You are considering “setting-up” a game to pull or push language. To do this, you need players and/or “fluent fools”. For the most satisfying game, you ensure potential players are… Read more »
7. “Copy-cat” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You’ve found a “fluent fool” in your target skill; you dive right in after “fluency”, by picking a common, accessible, “same conversation”, then “start at the beginning” by “copycatting” everything… Read more »
6. “Set-up” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
To maximize the players’ experience of “Obviously!”, we intentionally “Set-up!” as much of the environment as possible, removing variables and distraction, focusing their attention on play. “I don’t think… Read more »
5. “Limit” – the Top 20 WAYK techniques
You’re “setting-up” a “TPR” environment, as close as possible to the real life objects and situation involved in your target skill. Yet starting with the real life, fully complex… Read more »
3. “Fluency” – the Top 20 Techniques of WAYK
We want to acquire a new competency, a new target skill. To do so we begin sharing and naming “Techniques” that will accelerate our acquisition of the target skill. The… Read more »
2. “Obviously!” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
Once we agree to share accelerators that work through tq “Technique!”, it leads us to tq “Obviously!”: the mother of all other techniques. Every technique in the WAYK system… Read more »
1. “Technique!” – Top 20 WAYK Techniques
“Technique!” is the fundamental structural element of the WAYK system. With it players can name and share the techniques that will accelerate learning and teaching, incorporated as “rules of… Read more »
January Spotlight: Top 20 Accelerated Learning Techniques
When explaining WAYK, we like to say, “There are a million specific ways to accelerate learning. We know 200.” This month we’ll be blogging 20 accelerated learning techniques, one at… Read more »
Focus on the Game
It’s easy to forget to just “play the game”, when using WAYK for the first time. The temptation to “remember” and “learn” is always lurking, ready to pounce on an… Read more »
The Race to “Getting to the Party”
So, owing to our recent work with helping revitalize Ecclesastical Latin at Wyoming Catholic College, Evan and I finally decided to put pen to paper and make a written USC… Read more »
An Index of WAYK Videos, Podcasts, and more
WAYK player Jay Bazuzi has put together a handy index of almost everything we’ve produced for WAYK. Check it out: http://wayk.bazuzi.com
“Same Conversations”: the WAYK Curriculum
The WAYK toolkit doesn’t provide a preset curriculum for any particular language; it provides the tools for generating this curriculum. In a sense, for us, “curriculum” has become somewhat of… Read more »
“Language Hunting” 2: Evan’s response
And now, Evan’s follow up: I am so excited for you Jay! Learning your own language from your own elder… A wonderful source of pride for your entire family and… Read more »
Language Hunting
Reader and fluency game player Jay Bazuzi commented recently: In a month I’ll be visiting my grandmother and want to learn her language from her, so I’m eager to learn… Read more »