I had the pleasure speaking with Dr. Florencia Henshaw, a Spanish professor and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) expert from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This is Part 1 of a two part episode (Part 2 coming soon!) where we discuss some optimal ways to think about comprehensible input and target language use in the classroom. 

Dr. Henshaw has a wonderful YouTube channel where she explains SLA in a very digestible way, and I highly recommend it: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/Unpackinglanguagepedagogy/featured

You can learn more about her and her terrific work there!