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E1T2
 
In the Philippines, we threw around acronyms.  "US" (You Ess) instead of the UnitedStates was common; "YM/WCA" was never The Young Men's/Women'sChristian Association.  It was simply the"Y"!
 
PK was "Pastor's kid" to those of us who grew upin a parsonage, until I heard one in China litter his discourse with"pk".  He was unable to explainit fully on inquiry.  It turned out itmeant like "vs", the "point kick" when football teamssettle a tie!
 
So I coined E1T2 for "Each One Teach Two", aslogan in my Oral English classes that I coined from Rutgers University literacyteacher Lucille Chagnon's book, Each ofyou, Teach Two.  She improves on FrankLaubach's "each one teach one" literacy method.  (Google TeachTwo for a methods' conversation.)
 
Most of my generation remembers C-3PO (See-three-Pee-Oh), adroid programmed for etiquette and protocol in the movie series Star Wars built by the character JediAnakin Skywalker to accompany astromech R2-D2.  Today, G3 smartphones are in everyone's hand.
 
Droids and androids are no longer foreign to many of us,Droid being a font in the smartphone OS (operating system) Android that Samsunguses to compete with the iPhone.  I am adinosaur among the techy crowd, having forsaken TV and the phone in Saipanwhere their use was irrelevant, and a nuisance. With technology replacing human physiology, however, we can't afford todiscard knowledge of how humans "naturally" behave as many of ourfunctions are increasingly getting automated.
 
I am an oldie.  Istill remember Harrison Ford's swagger, Mark Hamill's live juvenile innocence, withCarrie Fisher tugging at our testosterone in the first Star Wars, but I did not come out a Sci-Fi groupie.  The artform, however, was appropriated byover zealous religious nuts to promote their favored metaphysical themes.  We went into time travel, back to the future,or are constantly time travelling!
 
The term E1T2 is handy but only for ease of memory ratherthan adding to the long list of shortened long names and phrases.  I've written enough of the methodology behindTeachTwo, Imaginal Education andTraining to say that nothing is esoteric about it.  
 
It follows the standard grasp of the way humans learn andexpress in words and numbers ideas and thoughts, often not naturally followed inour haste to arrive and promote "meaningful" cultural way of"knowing".  Pedagogy tends to short-circuitthe process by hurrying to the cognitive level (significance) without botheringto clarify indicative and subjunctive levels. It stops at meaning (ah, but the cognition is ever rich and alluring) withoutpushing for the "so what?" that invites imperative action.
 
OK.  I lost youthere.  Briefly, our brains iteratively startat sense experience (see, hear, smell, taste, touch), to emotional response(feelings), then intellectual ideas (thoughts and categories) resulting inbehavioral pattern (acts and deeds).  TheEnglish language labels moods in the indicative, subjunctive, andimperative.  I include cognitive as athird one before the imperative, to differentiate emotion and intellect.  Others use ORID: the objective, the reflective,the interpretive and the decisional. These four main categories are basic and indisputable though oneunderstands that they are about one thing regardless of their iteration intheir expression, e.g. one can begin with the emotive but insures that theexperience is clear so that meaning and subsequent deeds are understood.
 
We all share in the academic bias of listening to an expert"who knows more than we do", and we in turn act the same toothers.  Expertise is measured by onionskins,selfhood on the thickness of wallet, but the truth that journeys our existenceis determined by awake individual and not by passing standard tests.  In fact, my pedagogical circle does not codifywisdom encrusted in time-honored categories but rather teach others to teach themselves,effectively and efficiently together.
 
That's the gift of Chagnon and E1T2.  The method teaches a pair or trio to beself-taught by knowing how one learns, getting one to be aware of it, and havethe confidence to employ it.  "Self-consciousness"and the skill of "consciousness of consciousness" are the fancy namesbut we will stick with "learning how to learn" and "knowing whatwe know".
 
For two hours on Monday and Thursday evenings, I conversewith those who wish to finesse their oral English around the Ocean View room ofthe Bass Bar in my neighborhood.  Ourtalk is heavy on "listen and repeat". I ask them to mimic an English song they like and get them to echo thesinger's pronunciation and not worry about meaning.  We ground them at the five-sense experiencelevel.  
 
I meet administrative personnel at the "OneCapitol" Hui Land Corporation (owned by Jardine of Hong Kong so staffwelcomes English tutorials) on Saturday afternoons to do the same.
 
I dream methods and enjoin others in the dreaming.  Achievement is in the actual doing.  E1T2 is easy. Try it, you'll like it.


j'aime la vie

yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!





    
             
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