A Fickle Bride

We can’t “teach” using TPRS. We can only share information and negotiate meaning in a light hearted way with our students if we are to authentically reach them using comprehensible input. In no way can that be called “teaching”

Comprehensible input is a fickle bride. She demands that we completely trust her ways if the marriage is to work out for the long term, and that means giving up what we used to think marriage was. One of the biggest things to do when we prepare for marriage with comprehensible input is the idea that we have to plan our classes.

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