Comprehensible Input

Why are understandable, compelling Spanish novels for beginners so hard to find? As I pondered this question, the answer became evident. How can one write a captivating story using simple [...]

I was a failure. How could I teach novels in Spanish and French? My high school students were running to their counselors begging to drop my class. The brave ones spoke up, tears of defeat and [...]

WORLD LANGUAGE CONFERENCE: You can now register for the Practical and Comprehensible Conference, one of the best professional development opportunities of the year for world language teachers. It [...]

When I was teaching, I could not find books for Spanish beginners or French learners, levels one, two, and three. There were plenty of novels for advanced students but not for principiantes. [...]

Oh, the horrors of grammar and conjugations charts! We want students to properly conjugate verbs, but we don’t want to drill and kill. Is there a way to provide comprehensible input for verb [...]

We want our language learners to become proficient in the target language, but first, they must be engaged and interested in the lesson. It’s impossible to get students to learn if they are [...]

The biggest challenge when teaching vocabulary is having enough activities to provide students with sufficient language in context. In this post, I’ll show you how I teach the clothes and colors [...]

Would you like a few ideas for teaching Spanish numbers 1-100 that will totally engage students? In this post, I will share with you how I teach the numbers. I will also share printable and [...]

If one of your goals this year is to provide more comprehensible input to your students, but you don’t know how to go about it or you need more ideas, these posts are for you; they will give you [...]

There are so many ways to provide comprehensible input while teaching remotely. Not only that, teaching online gives teachers MORE options for CI.  There are things you can do with digital [...]