Helping to learn. You can't teach anyone something they don't want to learn. So all a teacher can do is help students to learn. They're the ones doing the learning. If there was a way to open their brains and pour the knowledge in, life might be easier, but maybe a little more boring. I've always worked at motivating my students, trying to find ways to make my lessons interesting, building on their interests whenever possible. But TPRS, "Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling", has made a tremendous difference in the way I teach. It's based on Comprehensible Input, and this concept alone should be at the heart of any method used to teach languages. In order to learn, students need to understand, and it's the teacher's responsibility to remain in bounds at all times, to input only what they can understand. The student's responsibility is to let the teacher know whenever she is out of bounds. It's interaction and interaction implies mutual comprehension.