Features of the First-Year Foreign Language Courses 1. Students acquire an exceptional understanding of vocabulary and an implicit understanding of sentence structure, preparing them for later courses in grammar, speaking, and writing. Comprehension learning provides superior recall. Students demonstrate a strong willingness to learn because they have no difficulty understanding the meaning of the foreign sentences. Students use the foreign language spontaneously in the classroom after just a few months of comprehension input.
All material is presented in the foreign language.
Auditory input is combined with pictures, presented in humorous and delightful narratives and short story scripts. Students think in the foreign language. Picture-completion exercises and carefully developed questions enable students and teachers to evaluate progress in learning. Make-up lessons are easy to administer by providing students with the appropriate audio cassettes. Discipline problems are greatly reduced when comprehension instruction is used.