The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications

Langs, then, presents strategies which teachers might use to teach on the trans-cultural field of discourse which Gumperz helps us to understand. What's more, Langs's strategies can help teachers to tailor their actions from day to day to the extent of their evolving understanding of this field. If a therapist can maintain communicative fields for deeply disturbed patients, a teacher can maintain similar fields for those students whose discourse strategies the teacher does not yet understand. With a field of communication established, teachers can continue to analyze those strategies by listening closely to the students, attending to their own response, forming silent hypotheses, and seeing them invalidated or validated in the next classroom exchange.