James wrote: > However, if a dancer asks a specific question such as "Do > we pass by right or left shoulders in the middle?" during > a walk-through, I don't think the caller should refuse > to answer in the dancer's terms. This, I believe, would > create the impression that the caller either didn't actually > know the answer or was disrespecting the dancer or both, > thereby raising the dancer's affective filter and making it > harder, rather than easier, for the caller then to help the > dancer learn a different way to think about things. >
"Affective filter." That could be useful. It comes from Krashen's theory of second language acquisition. It describes an anxiety-triggered feeling of incompetence that prevents a student from acquiring new information. As in: "When a caller steps down from the stage when wearing a head mike and follows a novice dancer while gesturing and giving them verbal instructions over the PA system it is likely to raise an affective filter that will make it nearly impossible for the novice dancer to learn the dance." It's a good term to use in discussions here. Just a thought, - Greg McKenzie
