138 ¦ Is input alone enough?

The Motivated Classroom by Dr. Liam Printer

Jun 19, 202600:29:44Education

For over five years, this podcast has advocated for an approach to language teaching centred around compelling, comprehensible input to unlock natural language acquisition and simultaneously increase student and teacher...

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