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Input: Creating a Language-Rich Learning Environment

For many students who are learning a foreign language, there may be little opportunity to access the language outside of the classroom. This is usually because they are learning this language in an environment where it isn’t commonly spoken and because there are no links to the language in their family background. For other students, the language they are learning may be part of their cultural heritage, meaning they have had some previous exposure to it through family members. In recent years, with the development of technology, communication across space and cultures is now possible in a way that it wasn’t in the past. Yet, even so, it will often be necessary for the teacher to facilitate these opportunities in order for students to be able to take advantage of them. This chapter focuses, then, on how the teacher can create an optimal environment for language learning. It is exactly because of the reduced opportunities for learners to access the language outside of the classroom that what happens in the classroom assumes even greater importance.