ABSTRACT
Intuitively, as they interact with people learning English as a new language, most English-proficient speakers adjust their communication to make it more comprehensible. Such adjustments illustrate the speaker’s inherent awareness of the importance of communicating at the listener’s language proficiency level. Communication adjustments resulting in “comprehensible input,” or language at the listener’s level of comprehension, include not only changing the words, but also “contextualization” of the message through the use of gestures, demonstrations, and other ways to actively convey the meaning.
