Language Teacher Toolkit: Steve Smith's blog

I'm returning here to a topic I have posted on before. This time I gave Chat GPT some notes to work on, it provided the bones of the blog and then I edited and supplemented it.  We know that language input that students understand is at the heart of language acquisition. If students don’t understand the input, learning doesn’t happen  — it's mere exposire, not language that learners can process. The challenge for language teachers is to  model  input clearly, repeatedly, and meaningfully. Below are five commonly used ways to model input , with concrete ideas on how to exploit  each one , all classroom-tested and easy to adapt. AI makes creating these inputs faster than ever — but it’s how we use them that really matters. 1. Sentence builders Maximum clarity, zero ambiguity Originally known in audiolingual practice as substitition tables,  sentence builders makes the target language completely transparent. Students know exactly what language they will use,...