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How My Understanding of SLA Has Been Fine-Tuned

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How My Understanding of SLA Has Been Fine-Tuned

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Although I believe in explicit instruction, I also believe that immersing students in input, to implicitly acquire/learn, is an important part of second language acquisition. Input should be comprehensible, but I would further add that we should not shy away from providing challenging input (ZPD). That said, there also needs to be a sympathetic interlocutor who can and will give feedback to help the learner produce comprehensible output -- a role which, to me, seems best filled by a teacher. Together, these ideas represent the “High Expectations + High Help” orientation that I believe teachers need to have, in any discipline. From my perspective, all of these things are necessary and work together for second language acquisition.

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Something that I really enjoyed learning about and that I think I will most apply to my future teaching was the most recent activity where we looked at the “good” tasks and what makes them. I think that alongside teacher talk and teacher talk time, these were the most valuable and applicable lessons we learned.