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"Conversations about Language Teaching" is a podcast of unscripted discussions of language teaching, drawing on both research and classroom & online language teaching. If you like thinking deeply about issues of classroom language teaching and how those relate to research and theory, this podcast might be for you. Reed & Diane, the hosts, base our knowledge of language teaching on research we've read & done, theoretical views of language acquisition, our experiences as language teachers and ...
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Send us a text Episode 30 Show Notes -- Purposes for Picture Talk Link to Cheng & Tsui webinar (mentioned by Diane as included Picture Talk): https://youtu.be/HinXS0n762g eBook (includes both ‘levels’ of Picture Talk Diane described) https://cheng-tsui.publishercart.com/product/comprehension-based-chinese-ebook/ Hawaii Department of Education https…
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Send us a text Episode 29 Show Notes - Rethinking Authenticity Hasegawa, A. (2018). Understanding task‐in‐process through the lens of laughter: Activity designs, instructional materials, learner orientations, and interpersonal relationships. The Modern Language Journal, 102(1), 142-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12448 Intro & outro music selecte…
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Send us a text This episode is in Mandarin Chinese. Reed & Diane talk about their experiences as non-native learners, users, and teachers of Mandarin Chinese. Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captione…
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Episode 27: A Story about Student Production
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Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth
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Send us a text Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth Show Notes The Mandarin Companion blog has concise & helpful information about Extensive reading (ER) and 98% known language. This post also describes why children’s books are not necessarily suitable for second language learners: https://mandarincompanion.com/7-mistakes-ab…
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Episode 25: There Is No Best Method--Why?
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Send us a text Episode 25: There Is No Best Method–Why? Discussing Prabhu (1990) Show Notes We discussed this article: Prabhu, N. S. (1990). There is no best method—Why?. TESOL Quarterly, 24(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.2307/3586897 It is freely available online at the link above. Diane missed the number of times it has been cited – “only” 1666 …
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Send us a text Episode 24 - Pronunciation development Reed’s grad school classmate's study: https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/phd-student-wenyi-ling-2018-research-award/ The full dissertation: Ling, W. (2021). The Perception, Processing and Learning of Mandarin Lexical Tone by Second Language Speakers. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://scholarspace.…
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Send us a text Episode 23: AI Chatbots Show Notes Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez-relevant link about using AI chatbots for language learning: https://clt.manoa.hawaii.edu/blog/event/ai-chatbots-2/ Billie Eilish AI interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0c94ghBS4A Magic School AI tool, where Reed & Diane have both prompted chatbots to work with Ch…
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Send us a text Episode 22 Show Notes Michael Long quote is on pp. 6-7 of the following, available freely online at the link: Long, M. H. (2016). In defense of tasks and TBLT: Nonissues and real issues. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 36, 5-33. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/ED5590DB727AE82E0A98AC05264B…
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Episode 21: Viewers' Questions & Answers
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Send us a text Show Notes: Video examples of comprehension-based communicative language teaching: Hawai`i Association of Language Teacher (HALT) conference presentation recording: Overview of CCLT (descriptive rather than a demo): https://youtu.be/h0Xd6zVSlxU?si=dIdenoWArOmYlW-q Teachers from Hawai`i developed a website including descriptions of di…
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Send us a text Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 20: The Silent Period Show Notes Search results on Google Scholar for “silent period second language acquisition” https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C15&q=silent+period+second+language+acquisition&oq=%22silent+period%22+ Diane quoted from this document: Krashen, S. (1981).…
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Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal
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Send us a text Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal Show Notes We welcome questions and topics to address! We're aiming for episode 21 to be responding to questions. Write to us at [email protected]. Lichtman, K. (2019). Research on TPR Storytelling (TPRS). Fluency through TPR storyt…
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Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities
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Send us a text Episode 18: Instructional Activities Seedhouse, P. (2010). Locusts, snowflakes and recasts: complexity theory and spoken interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463011003750624 Neubauer, D. (2022). Chinese Language Instruction with Novice Learners: Target Language Topic Development, Engagement, and Com…
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Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings
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Send us a text Episode 17 Show notes Lichtman, K., & VanPatten, B. (2021). Was Krashen right? Forty years later. Foreign Language Annals, 54(2), 283-305. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/flan.12552 Note: ACTFL members have access to that full article through your membership after logging in. There are also several response articles, …
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Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts
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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts Show Notes: Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcast…
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Send us a text Season 2 Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies Show Notes The chapter is chapter 34 in this book: Celce-Murcia, M., Brinton, D., & Snow, M. A., Eds. (2014). Teaching English as a Second Or Foreign Language. National Geographic Learning. 4th edition. A free PDF of the 3rd edition (the 2001 edition) is available free here. You can br…
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Episode 14: Being a New Teacher at a School
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Send us a text Episode 14 Being a New Teacher at a School Show Notes Ngan-Ha Ta https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) https://begladtraining.com/about Our trainer in GLAD pedagogy was Luis Pelayo Zepeda. Diane’s PowerPoint with quotes from research and about language is shared freely (and you may use it with…
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Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching
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Send us a text Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching Show Notes Claire Kramsch: https://german.berkeley.edu/people/claire-kramsch/ A book chapter she co-authored, including interculturality and “third space”: Kramsch, C., & Uryu, M. (2020). Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space. In The Routledge handbook of language and intercultura…
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Send us a text Show Notes: Things mentioned in the podcast with links when available: SLAyyy podcast (Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley, and Bryan Smith) https://slayyy.buzzsprout.com/ VanPatten, B. (2017). While We're on the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. ACTFL. VanPatten, B. (2019). The Nature of Language: A Short G…
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Episode 11: Growing from Tough Teaching Situations
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Send us a text Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsabo…
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Send us a text Episode 10: Instructional Language Play No Show Notes this episode! Send us a message if you have a question about anything we referred to in the episode. Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes a…
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Send us a text Episode 9: Teacher training Show Notes Ngan Ta, PhD Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting…
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Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines
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Send us a text Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines Show notes: Some of the opening of class routines mentioned: Free Writes / Fluency Writing Map Talk How Are You? / Social-emotional check-ins Calendar Talk Diane's classroom tour videos showing word posters are in this YouTube playlist. Diane's blog posts about reducing …
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Episode 7: Learning about language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis
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Send us a text Episode 7: Carefully observing language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis Show notes: Harvey Sacks and Emmanuel Schlegoff Their 1973 study, which more or less became a standard for Conversation Analysis as a research approach and methodology: Schegloff, E. A., & Sacks, H. (1973). Opening up closings. https://www.deg…
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Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language" versus "language for communication"
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Send us a text Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language" versus "language for communication" Show Notes: Reed mentioned a research study we did related to language play at the Agen Workshop. That is here: Neubauer, D., & Riggs, R. (2024). Chapter 5 Pedagogical language play in a beginning L2 Chinese classroom. In L. Darren & T. Elaine (Eds.…
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Episode 5: What can language teachers get from research?
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Send us a text Episode 5 of Conversations about Language Teaching: What can language teachers get from research? Show Notes: Video (8m 31s) by Mango Languages, What is Second Language Acquisition (SLA)? | Science Behind Language Learning https://youtu.be/WZZUCykPQWE Diane mentioned this article as an example of how a research article is structured,…
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Episode 4: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed
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Send us a text Episode 4 Conversations about Language Teaching: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed Show notes: Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@Conversat…
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Episode 3: Seating and physical classroom set up
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Send us a text Episode 3 Conversations about Language Teaching: Seating and physical classroom set up and how that affects teaching & learning Show notes: STARTALK is a US-funded program for critical languages teacher and student training. More info: The "I do, we do, you do" model is mentioned in this STARTALK publication. Schwab, G. (2011). From …
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Episode 2: Planning lessons for beginning language learners
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Send us a text Episode 2 of Conversations about Language Teaching: Planning Lessons for Beginning Language Learners Show Notes: The Agen Workshop https://theagenworkshop.com/ Swanson, P. B. (2010). Teacher efficacy and attrition: Helping students at introductory levels of language instruction appears critical. Hispania, 305-321. Read/download the a…
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Episode 0: Bonus episode deciding the podcast scope & title
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Send us a text Bonus episode 0 of Conversations about Language Teaching. SHOW NOTES: Our actual notes for planning this podcast episode & the podcast overall. 1. Deciding on a title for the show: Conversations about language teaching with Diane Neubauer and Reed Riggs 2. Blurbs about us: - Diane came from being a language learner, then a language t…
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Episode 1: Comprehensive Comprehensible Input
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Send us a text Episode 1 of Conversations about Language Teaching. Show notes: Items mentioned in the episode: Reed’s HI TESOL article (see pp. 22-24): https://hawaiitesol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023_May.pdf The Krashen video (a classic clip from a talk by Dr. Stephen Krashen in the 1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w Michae…
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