Category: Teacher Resources
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Want to use AI to simplify some of your planning and materials design? Try asking Claude to list challenging words in an authentic text and provide translations.
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This article written with Bruna Sommer-Farias and Frederick Poole appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of ACTFL’s magazine, The Language Educator.
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acquisition, comprehensible input, download and share, key concepts, methods, proficiency, reflective writing, research, SLA, teacher development
The phrase “comprehensible input” has a lot of buzz among world language teachers – but what does CI really mean, and what does it mean to teach with CI?
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alumni, apps, interactions, language teacher guides, MAFLT Program, online learning, pandemic, recommended resources, teacher development, technology
Finding the right tool can be difficult for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the tech tools are hard to find because we aren’t quite sure what we are looking for. We can search by the names and types of tools, but it is harder to search based on what we want them to do. When…
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communicative modes, innovations, language teacher guides, online learning, pandemic, proficiency, teacher development, technology
Recommendations for Unexpectedly Online Teachers | Whether you have to teach remotely or you just want to use technology in innovative ways… Keep focusing on teaching language for proficiency!
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Is that the question? In response to the ever-present debates about how much and whether to teach grammar…
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authentic materials, comprehensible input, key concepts, language teacher guides, proficiency, reflective writing, teacher development, teaching methods
Comprehensible input is everywhere. Even if our language learners would have to travel thousands of miles to meet native speakers face to face, we can still find compelling comprehensible input that will let them experience the target language in use. On the internet, CI is available on a website that presents current events in texts…
