It has been over year a since we have heard the "Diva of SLA" Bill VanPatten live since the last episode of Talkin' L2 with BVP.  Darren, Christine, Brian, and special guest Emma ask Bill the hard questions to help inform world language teachers of the basic fundamentals of language acquisition and to help us reflect on what Comprehensible Input is and what it is not.  Congratulations to Teryn for calling into the show and answering the trivia questions and winning her very own copy of Bill's best seller, While We're On The Topic.  Stay tuned for our next live show in a couple weeks streamed on the Michigan CI Language Teachers Facebook Group.  May all your input be comprehensible!

This is the pilot episode where the gang decides to kick things off with a discussion on what is going on in college methods classes to help prepare young world language teachers entering the field.

The gang talks about the polarization of world language departments in schools and how we can become more unified and sharing tips on how to transition a department into teaching for language acquisition.