Resources for Comprehensible Input and Use of the Target Language

The resources below may be of some use to you as you continue to develop your practice in the areas of designing and providing comprehensible input in the target language.

• Teaching foreign languages K-12: Mapping Planet Earth 
  Annenberg Foundation.
  http://www.learner.org/libraries/tfl/french/appel/index.html (Links to an external site.)
• Student Teacher’s Attitudes and Beliefs About Using the Target Language in the Classroom
  Bateman, Blair E. Foreign Language Annals Volume 41, Issue 1, pages 11–28, Spring.
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2008.tb03277.x/abstract (Links to an external site.)
• Target Language Use in the Second Language Classroom
  University of Alberta
  http://www.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.bilash/best%20of%20bilash/targetlanguage.html (Links to an external site.)
• Strategies for Staying in the Target Language with Beginners
  Calico Spanish
  http://calicospanish.com/strategies-for-staying-in-the-target-language-with-beginners/ (Links to an external site.)
• Instructor Target Language Use in Today’s World Language Classrooms.
  Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Report. Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco
  http://www.csctfl.org/documents/2013Report/Chapter%201.pdf (Links to an external site.)
• Tuesday’s Tips For Staying in The Target Language
  Caleb Howard
  http://senorhoward.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Going for 90 Plus How to Stay in the Target language
  Crouse, Douglass. The Language Educator. October, 2012.
  https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/TLE_pdf/TLE_Oct12_Article.pdf (Links to an external site.)
• Teaching in the Target Language
  National Capital Language Resource Center. 2012. Newsletter Vol. 14 No. 2. Helena Curtain
  http://nclrc.org/about_teaching/topics/PDFs/FeatureCurtain-TeachingintheTargetLanguageFINAL.pdf (Links to an external site.)
• Language Using the Target Language in the Classroom.
  Hillary McColl
  http://www.languageswithoutlimits.co.uk/resources/TargetLanguage.pdf