Robert’s email discussing Scope and Sequence with his district World Languages representative continues:
3. Researchers (e.g. Asher, Krashen, Van Patten, Omaggio, Wong, Pink) agree that the single most important element that leads to acquisition is Comprehensible Input. (Of course, that means input that is comprehensible to the student not just to the teacher.) Terms such as the “Silent Period” remind us that this comprehensible and comprehended input must precede output. As Wynne Wong (Ohio State University) puts it, “a flood of Input is necessary to get a trickle of Output”. Bertie Segal observes that “Language is first of all acoustic.” (How many times do people tell us that something “just sounds right”?)