Explaining Principles & Practices
The Opposite of Comprehensible Input
What is the Opposite of Teaching with Comprehensible Input?
Principles and practices of language learning and teaching
Principles and practices of training language teachers
Principles and practices of designing and implementing instruction in online spaces
This site includes my professional portfolio as well as sets of resources on language teaching, teaching language teachers, online instruction, and my own forays into teacher inquiry as well as work I have done with my students as a mentor and collaborator.
I am an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and director of the Master of Arts in Foreign Language Teaching in the MSU College of Arts and Letters.
The MAFLT is a distance-based graduate program designed to meet the needs of current teachers and aspiring educators of any target language. We provide a principled balance of theory and practice in an interactive and personalized format. Courses emphasize proficiency-based approaches, effective integration of culture and technology, and leadership.
What is the Opposite of Teaching with Comprehensible Input?
This perspective on remote learning and teaching may sound strange at first, but bear with me.
Finding the right tool can be difficult for a lot of reasons. Sometimes the tech tools are hard to find because we aren’t quite sure what we are looking for. We can search by the Read more…
Around the corner from CeLTA
Center for Language Teaching Advancement
B135 Wells Hall
MSU ID: alanier
Office: 517-884-7764
Anywhere: 517-618-1579