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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input?
If you are, you're in the right place.
Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com
Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Episode 51: Interpretive Communication: My Takeaways from AATSP Georgia Fall Conference with Dr. Florencia Henshaw
Are you looking for new ideas to help your students comprehend texts beyond words? If you are, this episode is for you!
In this episode, I'll share my biggest takeaways from the AATSP Fall Conference, featuring Dr. Florencia Henshaw, where she shares all about Interpretive Communication and its vital role in language acquisition.
Get ready to discover or rediscover highly effective strategies for pre-, during, and post-reading or listening activities. From inferring meaning to using annotations and graphic organizers, this episode is packed with low-prep strategies to help your students engage with text in a deeper way.
Are you ready? Click to listen!
Links & Resources
Annotations by Comprehensible Classroom
Annotation Walk by Megan Loveless
Common Ground Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom by Dr. Florencia Henshaw and Maris Hawkins
🎙️ Do your students love animals?
Yeah… I already know the answer.
Because if there’s one thing that gets every single one of my students to say “aww” or light up with a smile… it’s animals. 🐶🐱🐘
Now imagine combining that universal love with a real-world topic like natural disasters—and boom 💥—you’ve got a compelling, ready-to-use lesson that sparks curiosity and builds empathy.
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