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Start the Year Right: Tools to Help Explain Your Acquisition-Driven Approach

Whether you’ve dipped your toes in or jumped all the way into teaching with a focus on comprehensible input, you’ve surely realized that it is a decisive paradigm shift for students. They are not learning about the language you’re teaching, rather they’re learning about other things using the language. Focusing on the messages themselves asContinue reading “Start the Year Right: Tools to Help Explain Your Acquisition-Driven Approach”

Why no music during FVR?

If you even dip your foot into the research on FVR, or “free voluntary reading”, it sounds like pure magic. As a teacher, the most powerful and effective tool I can wield is something the students do all by themselves? Yes, please! However, we have all surely had the kid who always has headphones going,Continue reading “Why no music during FVR?”