Input-Based Strategies and Distance Learning

Jason Fritze and Connie Johnson

August 22, September 5, October 3, November 7, December 5, 9:00-11:30, 12:30-3:00
(25 synchronous, 5 asynchronous hours)

Research and practice indicate that effective language instruction must provide significant amounts of comprehensible, meaningful, and interesting talk and text in the target language for learners to develop communicative and cultural proficiency.” From Glisan and Dontato, cited in the 2020 World Languages Framework for California Public Schools. This course will present strategies to build classroom communities, using the target language for instruction to support acquisition in synchronous and asynchronous activities for distance and hybrid learning.