ESL classroom with students listening to teacher demonstrating comprehensible input

Comprehensible Input: 12 Examples for ESL Teachers (2026)

Stephen Krashen made one claim in 1985 that quietly rewired how serious teachers run an ESL classroom: comprehensible input — language that a student can understand even when it sits slightly above their current level — is the single ingredient that drives real acquisition. Everything else (drills, grammar slides, error correction) is sauce. Forty years…

Scaffolding examples teaching: ESL teacher modeling new language

Scaffolding Examples in Teaching: 15 ESL Techniques

Scaffolding examples in teaching are the small supports a teacher builds around a difficult task — a sentence frame, a model dialogue, a partial gap-fill — so a student can attempt language slightly above their current level without freezing. Done well, scaffolding gets a student to produce something they could not produce yesterday. Done badly,…