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Strategies for Checking Comprehension

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Do you feel that you provide comprehensible input to your students?  Do you have a solid understanding of how beneficial this is to their language learning? Hopefully you are thinking, yes indeed. An important part of this process is checking that students do, in fact understand. In this episode we are going to look at effective strategies and techniques that you can use in your classroom to gauge student comprehension, and then what we can do with what we learn from these checks for comprehension.

Topics in this Episode:

• Krashen’s Monitor Model/Input Hypothesis emphasizes the significance of comprehensible input as the key to acquiring language. 
  • Acquisition-Learning hypothesis
  • Input hypothesis
  • Affective Filter hypothesis
  • Natural Order hypothesis
  • Monitor hypothesis
• Strategies for Effective Comprehension Checks
• Total Participation Techniques
• What to Do with What We Learn From the Comprehension Check
•  Links:
  • Blog post On Checking for Comprehension
  • Podcast Episode 120 with  Timothy Chavez on participation in the language classroom

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