The newest buzz in the communicative language teaching community is — guess what — “Comprehensible Input”. Unfortunately, there seems to be some confusion about what “comprehensible” means. Sitting in workshops given by respected presenters in the communicative teaching world, one hears repeated references to “Comprehensible Input”, but what is really being said is usually one […]
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Comprehensible Input goes traveling
Posted by Terry Waltz on May 5th, 2012
Posted in General, Methods 
Tags: ACTFL, Comprehensible Input, Legacy Methods, Standards, TPRS 
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Posted by Terry Waltz on December 20th, 2011
The new ACTFL proficiency guidelines are out for 2012. But they are still based on the outcomes from traditional rules-and-output language teaching. Yes, they aren’t referencing specific grammar points, which is a definite plus. And the requirements or wiggle room for errors is, in my view, appropriate across the levels. What I have a problem […]
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