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orientations, not independent but different. To treat them both as forces for understanding the Quintain, the Analyst keeps them both alive even as he or she is writing the Assertions of the final report. The Themes preserve the main research questions for the overall study. The Findings preserve certain activity (belonging to Case and Quintain alike) found in the special circumstances of the Cases. When the Themes and Factors meet, they appear to the Analyst as both consolidation and extension of understanding” (pp. 39-40). The notion of a quintain provides the basis for approaching data collection and data analysis of multiple case studies. Sheltered Instructional Operation Protocol (SIOP) Model. The SIOP model provides the basis for making subject-matter more comprehensible to English language learners who are taking content courses with native-speaking learners. Aspects of the SIOP model include specific techniques that make input more comprehensible at the planning, implementation, and assessment stages (Echevarría, Vogt, & Short, 2004). Although the SIOP model was originally intended on teaching and learning English as a second language (e.g., learning English in the United States), the notion of comprehensible input has been well researched to include also the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (e.g., learning English in Mexico) (Krashen, 2003). This study does not seek to defend what is “comprehensible”, but rather to use the SIOP model as a basis for communicating challenges English-as-a-foreign language educators face in terms of their own teaching and learning. Understandings. Understandings are the “moral of the story, or rather, of [the] unit”