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CI Theory

Comprehensible Input Theory

is built on language acquisition research and is interested in learning language in the most permanent way possible.

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ACQUISITION THEORY

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COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT THEORY

CI is not

Immersion
Bland repetition
Dialogues
Drills

CI is

Understandable messages
Compelling
Low stress

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Remember the 3 C’s: Comprehensible, Compelling, Caring

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TEACHING PRACTICE:

Pre-Reading Strategies

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QR CODE DICTATIO

Find the QR code for the slip of paper you were handed and scan it.
Reader reads the sentence while the writer records it in the right spot.
Read the location of the next clue and go there to scan the next code.

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CI Connection:

Is it Comprehensible, Compelling, and Caring?

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TEACHING PRACTICE:

Reading a Text

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3 KEYS TO EMBEDDED READINGS

adjust vocabulary

simplify composition

leave them hanging

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Homines Mirabiles Abarimontis

Pliny 7.11

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in quadam convalle magna Imavi montis regio est quae vocatur Abarimon,

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in qua silvestres homines vivunt et habent ____ post crura,

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homines eximiae velocitatis

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undique cum feris vagantes.

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‘hos in alio caelo non spirare posse

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ideoque ad finitimos reges non pertrahi

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CI Connection:

Is it Comprehensible, Compelling, and Caring?

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TEACHING PRACTICE:

Post-Reading Readings

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SENTENCE FLYSWATTER

Just like vocabulary fly-swatter, except:

Each slide has images instead of just a list of words
Students listen to sentences and/or phrases and race to hit the correct image

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Hasta Muscae

Homines Mirabiles Abarimontis: Pliny 7.11

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Verba

regio	eius	rex	vivit
crura	vagatur	mons	caelum
ferus	potest	iter	spirat
alius	quadam	ideo	velocitas

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TELEPHONE RELAY

Lay cards face down with #1 on top.
When told to start, S1 draws the sentence on the card and does not show the team. When told to, S1 shows picture to S2.
S2 finds the sentence in the story that goes with the picture and dictates it to S3.
S3 writes the sentence and shows it to me.