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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 52: Reimagining Language Textbooks for Comprehensible & Communicative Teaching
Are you frustrated with language textbooks that seem to prioritize vocabulary lists and grammar drills? If you are, this is the episode for you.
In this episode, we'll talk about some of the shortcomings of traditional language textbooks and explore four practical ideas to better align them with the principles of second language acquisition (SLA).
Discover how to shift the focus from mere language production to providing ample input for your students. Learn to personalize textbook content, ensuring it resonates with your learners and fosters meaningful communication. We'll help you restructure the sequence of activities, emphasizing a communicative purpose and encouraging input before output. Additionally, we'll delve into the importance of prioritizing relevant, high-frequency vocabulary to streamline language acquisition.
Ready? Tune in today and take the first step in aligning your textbooks with the principles of second language acquisition without the frustration!
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