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Lack of Communicative Purpose

Bad Input! Bad!

Need for Scaffolding

We Teach Much More Than Language

Gatekeep - Sadri, E. & Tahririan, M.H.. (2018). Teacher-assisted vs. peer-assisted performances and L2 development: A mixed methods approach. Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics. 9. 3-27.

When Do Students Get the Most Gains from Peer Assistance?

Feedback Amount and Quality

What This Feedback Accomplished

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Bill’s Framework That Slays

The Question of Proportion

Interactive Tasks That Are Secretly Input

Real Tasks, Really Supported

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

Timothy Chávez on Instagram and His Website!

Examples of Tasks shared by Timothy

Arcoíris from The Comprehensible Classroom

Huellas from Somewhere to Share

AnneMarie Chase - AP Strategies

Episode Notes

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

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What is school supposed to look like?

Misalignment of Objectives

Holistic Thinking vs. Right/Wrong Answers

Gatekeep - Kürüm, E. Y. (2025). Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Comprehension-Based Language Teaching: A Large-Scale Pretest-Posttest Study. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, (47), 140-155.

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ACTFL’s Inverted Pyramid

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Get Connected!

iFLT/TPRS/CI Teaching Facebook Group

ACTFL Special Interest Groups

See below for conferences mentioned!

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

Mitten CI, April 17-18, Saline, Michigan (outside Detroit),

Comprehensible Iowa, June 12-13th, Des Moines, Iowa

The CI Summit, July 15-17, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Agen Workshop, Agen, France, July 20-25

CI Reboot, all online, June 20-27