Wow, I’m thinking in words !
And I’ve just realized that when people ask “what language do you think in ?” they mean this kind of thinking.
But this kind of thinking is daydreaming
“thinking-in-words” doesn’t make sense otherwise for 2 reasons:
a). doesn’t everyone “feel” how much faster thoughts are than words ? (and what about the technicolour )
b). How would ANYONE ever have to say “I can’t find the words” – in their L1 that is – if the thought were in words to start with
And why was I thinking in words today?
Well………. Because I was driving along daydreaming that I too could write a blog 🙂
In fact I was thinking I too should write a blog
SHOULD write a blog ??
After watching Marissa’s aPLaNet Prezi and thinking of how I have benefitted from my PLN, it already seemed as if I am taking rather than sharing but now that SueAnnan’s interviewed me, it seems I really do have to move on from my work only use of the internet….
especially, and above all, because like many, I’m enjoying Brad’s PLN interview challenge and boy would I like to interview Marissa 🙂 So I am creating a space in which to post the interview…. fingers crossed.
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good grief – it’s taken me 60 years to learn this(to get learners to) "understand that effective writers have an ongoing internal dialogue which shapes their writing and that children need this process made explicit through talk"and now they’re teaching it in primary school – great site Pie Corbett via @bookchookhttp://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110202093118/http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/154519?uc%20=%20force_uj
What a pity …. too late 🙂
this is on the bookchook’s archived reference site that anonymous sent in 2012 LOL
What is Talk for Writing?
For experienced writers, many of the creative and thinking processes involved in writing are internal and automatic. For example, many writers can hold an internal dialogue with themselves about the possible effectiveness of alternative language choices.
However, for developing writers, it is very helpful if these processes can be made explicit and explored through talk in a supportive learning context.
It is this developmental exploration, through talk, of the thinking and creative processes involved in being a writer that we are calling Talk for Writing.