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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 53: Part 2 - Reimagining Language Textbooks for Comprehensible & Communicative Teaching Q&A
Welcome to the second part of our series, where we delve deeper into the concept of reimagining language textbooks to enhance the effectiveness of language teaching and make it more engaging. In our previous episode, we explored this exciting approach, and our audience didn't hold back, posing a wide array of questions across four major themes: vocabulary, grammar, structuring lesson plans, and the challenges that educators face beyond the classroom.
Let's begin with the theme of vocabulary. The burning question on everyone's mind is, "How can we effectively cover all the necessary vocabulary?" While there's no one-size-fits-all solution to this challenge, in this episode, we'll ask the questions that will lead us to the solution. Additionally, I'll share three different approaches that can help us build vocabulary effectively for our learners.
Moving on to grammar, many questions revolve around how to incorporate specific grammar concepts and verb forms into our teaching materials. In Episode 51, I touched on this topic, and now, I'll introduce two more practical ideas that can be applied at any language proficiency level.
Next, we'll tackle the critical task of structuring lesson plans. Effective lesson planning is the cornerstone of successful teaching, especially when adopting the comprehensible and communicative approach. We'll explore how to strike the right balance between departing from the rigid sequence of a textbook while maintaining a sustainable teaching practice. Furthermore, we'll provide specific structures that can be tailored to your teaching needs.
Finally, we'll address the challenges that educators often encounter outside the classroom, such as dealing with unsupportive departments or managing end-of-year expectations from the next teacher.
Are you ready? Click play, and let's embark on this journey of exploration and innovation in language teaching.
Links & Resources
Self Selected Vocabulary by Thomas Sauer
Question of the Day by Diego Ojeda
How to Plan for a 90 Minutes Class Episode 11
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