Comprehensible Input: Teaching Method

abstract: Comprehensible input is described in the following statement: “When students are learning a second language, they should be able to understand the essence of what is being said or presented to them.” Students learn more through comprehensible input than through the more common teaching methods of memorization and language immersion programs, which have students only hearing the second language without any meaningful or helpful information. It is important for educators to understand that learning a new language is not as simple as immersing a student completely in the new language, there must be actual comprehension before anything of meaning can be retained