Second Language Acquisition for the Real World
Work In Progress
These courses applies research on language acquisition to the context of 6-12 classrooms. Each one is organized in three stages: research overview, implications for teaching, example activities, lessons and strategies. The online training is self-paced and interactive. Monthly webinars support collaboration and problem solving.
Interactive Understanding
Painless Language Learning
Apply the research on how language gets into the brain
Empower teachers and students to stay in the target language
Proficiency Not Perfection
Spontaneous Speaking
Describe what performances look like at different proficiency levels
Evaluate Teacher practices that build spontaneous speaking (Interpersonal Speaking)
Magic of Meaning
Improving Accuracy
Designing Comprehensible input to focus on word choice and native-like structures
Describe how complex structures are stored and accessed in the brain
Use research-based criteria to choose the high-leverage structures
Discover activities that may increase the acquisition of problematic structures
Feedback Invited!
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