The takeaway
Teachers are no longer the gatekeepers to additional languages and students are no longer passive consumers. With ever-increasing access to native speakers and to language-learning opportunities, students need teachers who can act as partners and who can direct them to resources and teach them to become better autonomous learners. You can do this by organizing an FSA with your students or by considering one of the alternatives to study abroad presented in the Design section.
What’s next?
Refer to step 1 in this guide [Word, 84k] to make a list of the affordances of your students’ language-learning contexts.