The classroom environment plays a critical role in comprehension and production. If students are overwhelmed by the enormity of a task, pressured by time, and oriented to production, they are unlikely to do well. The teacher is responsible for establishing and maintaining an instructional environment where literature is presented in comprehensible and manageable segments; where lessons are paced to focus on comprehension and not on getting through the syllabus; where the language skills of reading, writing, and speaking are integrated; and where errors are viewed as natural by-products of attempts to use language. In such an atmosphere, students, even with limited English language proficiency, can and do flourish.