.jpg)
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 122: Elevating Intermediate Learners with CI – Authentic Resources, Grammar, Writing, and Feedback (Part 3)
In this final installment of our three-part series, Elevating Intermediate Learners with Comprehensible Input, we’re tackling the questions YOU asked! From authentic resources to grammar instruction, writing support, and feedback, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you simplify and strengthen your classroom practices.
Let’s remember that whatever strategy you’re incorporating in your class, it has to be sustainable—because you deserve strategies that work without burning out.
Episode Highlights
🌎 Authentic Resources: Are authentic resources helping or frustrating your students? Learn how to bridge the gap between cultural authenticity and comprehensible input.
📚 Grammar Instruction: Why teaching grammar for grammar’s sake is pointless. Strategies like P.A.C.E., Pop-up Grammar, and Structured Input Activities that make grammar meaningful.
✍️ Writing Support: The Breathe In/Breathe Out approach: Reading as input, writing as output. Break writing into manageable steps with scaffolds and examples.
💡 Feedback: Shift your mindset: Feedback isn’t about fixing everything—it’s about guiding growth. Strategies to help students listen to feedback while they are working on their product.
🎉 NEW SEGMENT: The Tool or Activity of the Week: Quizzizz!
This segment is sponsored by Mitten CI Language Conference! Register by December 1st to grab your early bird discount and infuse happiness into your teaching!
Resources & Links Mentioned
Free resources:
Scaffold for AP Free Responses
📖 Previous Episodes:
Episodes 60–66: Sustainable practices in the language classroom.
Episode 41: Using Structured Input Activities for grammar instruction.
🌟 Mitten CI Language Conference: Register now and save: Mitten CI Conference Registration
Join the Conversation
Did this series spark ideas or questions? Share your thoughts!
📧 Email me: claudia@growingwithproficiency.com
💬 DM me on Instagram
Thank you for being part of this series. Don’t forget to revisit parts 1 and 2 to explore how comprehensible input can transform your intermediate learners’ experience. ¡Sí se puede! 🎉
