It's normal for teachers new to CI (and experienced ones as well) to hear an internal voice saying: "That's too much repetition! The students are bored for sure! Move on!" In response, I want to illustrate a difference between repeating language forms and repeating situated meaning.
FIRST, JUST START READING: FROM WIKIPIEDIA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_dog_story) Archetypal story A shaggy dog, the archetypical subject of long-winded, pointless stories The commonly believed archetype of the shaggy dog story is a story that concerns a shaggy dog. The story builds up, repeatedly emphasizing how shaggy the dog is. At the climax of the story, someone in the story reacts with, "That dog's not so shaggy." The expectations of the audience that have been built up by the presentation of the story, that the story will end with a punchline, are thus disappointed. Ted Cohen gives the following example of this story:[1] AT THIS POINT IN THE READING, THE WORD "OF" HAS APPEARED 8 TIMES (INCLUDING IN THIS SENTENCE), AND THE WORD "THE" HAS APPEARED 21 TIMES. THAT'S PROBABLY ENOUGH, AND I'M AFRAID YOU WILL FEEL BORED, SO I REMOVED THESE TWO WORDS FROM NOW ON. A boy owned a dog that was uncommonly shaggy. Many people remarked upon its considerable shagginess. When boy learned that there are contests for shaggy dogs, he entered his dog. dog won first prize for shagginess in both local and regional competitions. boy entered dog in ever-larger contests, until finally he entered it in world championship for shaggy dogs. When judges had inspected all competing dogs, they remarked about boy's dog: "He's not that shaggy." THE WORD "SHAGGY" HAS APPEARED 11 TIMES, AND "STORY" 10 TIMES. PROBABLY ENOUGH. ALSO "IS" (8 TIMES ALREADY). I'LL STOP USING THEM SO THEY DON'T BOTHER YOU. However, authorities disagree as to whether this particular archetype after which category named. Eric Partridge, for example, provides a very different story, as do William and Mary Morrin Morris Dictionary Word and Phrase Origins. NOW LET'S STOP WITH "A", "AN", AND "TO". YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THEM, I THINK. According Partridge and Morrises, archetypical dog involves advertisement placed in Times announcing search for dog. In Partridge story, aristocratic family living in Park Lane searching for lost dog, and American answers advertisement with dog that he has found and personally brought across Atlantic, only tbe received by butler at end who takes one look at dog and shuts door in his face, saying, "But not so as that, sir!" In Morris, advertiser organizing competition find dog in world, and after lengthy exposition search for such dog, winner presented aristocratic instigator competition, who says, "I don't think he's so."[3][4] My point here is that in order to combat that irrational voice in our heads, we should recognize that language forms can be repeated infinite times if its users (listeners, readers, speakers, writers) are focused on the meaning in each situation. This situated meaning keeps changing and progressing logically as we work through our stories, personal info, opinions, experiences, etc., and so everyone can remain engaged in the discussion. When reading, we just wanted to know if Oprah will get the Sriracha, if the worms in my backpack were bloody or not, and if Dan's house had rats or not. Other people would want to talk about other things, and that's the challenge for the teacher: keep offering learners topics to talk about until we show interest. Then talk about that.
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