What is Comprehensible Input? Really?
- Comprehensible input is a theoretical construct in Second Language Acquisition.
- Comprehensible input is a core tenet of an approach that has expanded from TPRS to “comprehension-based language teaching.”
- Comprehensible input is the buzzword that binds a widespread movement to transform contemporary language teaching.
It’s all of the above. It’s widely used, deeply influential, hotly debated, frequently misunderstood, and not as far from the rest of what scholars and educators have been recommending to language teachers for the last forty or fifty years as it might seem. Read more about what it is and is not in this post:
Teacher Inquiry on CI and TPRS
This presentation shares results from an ongoing project that really looks at the impact on teachers when they encounter and take up TPRS and CI-based approaches to language teaching.
Presented at AAAL 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia
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