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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input?
If you are, you're in the right place.
Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com
Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Episode 41: Beyond Exposure (Part 2): Exploring Processing Instruction and Structured Input Activities with Dr. Florencia Henshaw
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Dr. Florencia Henshaw, diving deeper into the world of language acquisition and the role of input. Join us as Florencia sheds light on the concept of processing instruction, unraveling its significance in helping students establish form-meaning connections. Discover how these principles can be effectively applied to design-structured input activities that enhance language learning outcomes in the classroom.
However, the conversation doesn't stop there. In the latter part of our discussion, Florencia emphasizes the vital importance of having assessment policies in our classes that align with the principles of language acquisition.
Get ready to be inspired and gain valuable insights from this enlightening episode. Hit that play button and let’s start. And remember, there may not be a magic formula for language acquisition, but these principles and strategies can guide us in making informed decisions in our classrooms.
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Dr. Florencia Henshaw has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is now the Director of Advanced Spanish. She is an award-winning educator who has published and presented nationally and internationally on technology integration and research-based pedagogical practices. Dr. Henshaw is as passionate about helping students develop communicative ability in the target language as she is about helping teachers make the connection between what we know and what we do. To that end, she launched a YouTube channel called "Unpacking Language Pedagogy," where she summarizes and discusses research articles, activities, terms, and various topics related to language teaching. Her co-authored book, Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom, also aims to help educators visualize how to put principles into action.
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