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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.
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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Episode 113: Crafting Comprehensible Texts for Language Learners with Nelly Andrade-Hughes
In this episode, Claudia sits down with Nelly Andrade-Hughes, an outstanding Spanish teacher and author of many comprehensible readers and educational materials for Spanish classes, to dive into the art of creating comprehensible texts for language learners. If you're looking to improve your students' engagement and comprehension, this episode is for you!
Key Takeaways:
- Why comprehensibility matters: Learn why students must be able to understand 98% of the text for true language acquisition.
- Strategies for writing effective texts: Nelly shares how to use high-frequency verbs, proper nouns, and cognates to build compelling stories.
- The importance of repetition: Discover how to ‘park’ key information to ensure students acquire vocabulary without overwhelming them.
- Adapting content for different levels: From novice to intermediate, find out how to adjust sentence structure, vocabulary, and context to match your students’ abilities.
- Balancing simplicity and engagement: Tips for keeping your text both comprehensible and compelling for middle and high school students.
Books by Nelly Andrade-Hughes: - Click here to access some of Nelly’s books
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