Applications in Language Teaching
Beginning level
- Class time is filled with comprehensible oral input
- Teachers must modify their speech so that it is comprehensible
- Demands for speaking (output) are low; students are not forced to speak until ready
- Grammar instruction is only included for students high school age and older
Intermediate level'
- Sheltered subject-matter teaching that uses modified academic texts to provide comprehensible input.
- Sheltered subject matter teaching is not for beginners or native speakers of the target language.
- In sheltered instruction classes, the focus is on the meaning, and not the form.
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