In a comment here last night Alisa said that traditional teachers believe that teaching a language means that kids can:
…[demonstrate] temporary mastery of [ certain vocanulary] terms on interval tests….
She goes on:
…[traditional teachers typically] don’t look for or grade for demonstration of contextual comprehension – certainly not of extended chunks of texts … so that [when a CI teacher like Nancy comes in] with the heavy artillery of demonstrating understanding of extended passages, [her] principal will stand up and take note and wonder what the heck the rest of the WL dept has been doing all these years…aside from handing over lists of words….