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STARTALK Effective Language Teaching Principles

Effective teaching and learning in language education requires teachers to use the target language at least 90% of the time and employ various strategies to ensure comprehensible input. Teachers are responsible for creating a language-rich environment that allows learners to engage meaningfully and demonstrate comprehension before producing language. The document outlines specific learner experiences and corresponding teacher responsibilities aligned with the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) Framework.

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STARTALK Effective Language Teaching Principles

Effective teaching and learning in language education requires teachers to use the target language at least 90% of the time and employ various strategies to ensure comprehensible input. Teachers are responsible for creating a language-rich environment that allows learners to engage meaningfully and demonstrate comprehension before producing language. The document outlines specific learner experiences and corresponding teacher responsibilities aligned with the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) Framework.

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Principles for Effective Teaching & Learning

Using the Target Language and


Providing Comprehensible Input

Teachers facilitate learning through the use of the target language and ensure that the target language
is used at least 90 percent of the time. Teachers deliberately determine if and when it is necessary to
translate. Teachers use a variety of strategies to make the target language comprehensible and
frequently check for understanding in a variety of ways in order to modify input as necessary. Learners
have frequent meaningful opportunities for target language production and are able to engage in
learning activities without resorting to their native language.

Learner Experiences & Teacher Responsibilities


The identified learner experiences are possible because of the work done by the teacher. The
corresponding teacher responsibilities provide guidance for the teacher by indicating key criteria
from the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) Framework.

• Learners are immersed in a language-rich environment in which they have frequent


opportunities for interpreting, expressing, and negotiating meaning in a real-world
context.
• The teacher ensures that at least 90% of what is shared with students is in the target language. TELL
Learning Experience: LE3.a

• Learners engage in activities to demonstrate comprehension in a variety of ways that do


not require language production.
• The teacher uses a variety of verbal and nonverbal strategies to make language comprehensible.
TELL Learning Experience: LE3.c

• Learners demonstrate that they understand what they have heard, read, or viewed before
engaging in interpersonal and presentational tasks.
• The teacher ensures that students have sufficient time to process in the interpretive mode before
producing language. TELL Learning Experience: LE3.g

• Learners engage in activities that require them to produce language in a meaningful


context.
• The teacher consciously monitors teacher talk in order to maximize student opportunities to
produce language. TELL Learning Experience: LE4.e

• Learners use a variety of strategies that allow them to stay in the target language.
• The teacher provides students with strategies that enable them to stay in the target language. TELL
Learning Experience: LE4.d

Explore the STARTALK Principles in action:


[Link]/public/principles

STARTALK is a project of the National Foreign Language Center sponsored by the National Security Agency.
© 2019 University of Maryland.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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