Teaching Strategies

Language exists to communicate, and the most effective language instruction keeps communication at the center. Acquisition Driven Instruction (ADI) is a communicative approach to language teaching that removes barriers between the classroom and the outside world.

Acquisition Driven Instruction focuses on helping learners to acquire a new language in the same way that they acquired their mother tongue. Instead of learning about the rules and components of a language and practicing how to combine them, during class, students engage in communicative activities such as discussion, storytelling, games, individual and whole class reading, and more--all in the target language. The teacher’s primary role is to plan the communicative activities and determine how to ensure that all linguistic input is level-appropriate or comprehensible for the learners. What happens in the classroom is instantly applicable to the world outside the classroom.