Send us a textEpisode 17 Show notesLichtman, 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, and a final response from Lichtman & VanPatten, in the same issue. Diane mentioned the English language test from the US called A...

Send us a textSeason 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic TextsShow Notes: Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the showThanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching. Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage

Send us a textSeason 2 Episode 15: Language Learner StrategiesShow NotesThe 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 browse parts of the most recent edition (the 2013 4th edition) on Google Books here.We discussed points from chapter 34 by James E. Purpura:Purpura, ...

Send us a textEpisode 14 Being a New at a SchoolShow NotesNgan-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 students and/or others, crediting your source): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xijf2_mMIGWq04wpCJpEbRzCv1XZU6VcBrtDwovHsWc/edit?usp=sharing...

Send us a textEpisode 13: Culture and Language TeachingShow NotesClaire 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 intercultural communication (pp. 204-218). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003036210-16/intercultural-contact-hyb...

Send us a textShow 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 Guide to What's in Our Heads. ACTFL.VanPatten, B. (2022). Language Acquisition in a Nutshell. ACTFL.Goodreads reviews of those 3 books:https://www.goodr...

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Send us a Text Message.Episode 9: Teacher trainingShow NotesNgan Ta, PhD Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the Show.

Send us a Text Message.Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routinesShow notes:Some of the opening of class routines mentioned: Free Writes / Fluency WritingMap Talk How Are You? / Social-emotional check-insCalendar TalkDiane's classroom tour videos showing word posters are in this YouTube playlist.Diane's blog posts about reducing lesson preparation time when teaching five different levels: Part 1 and Part 2Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by...

Send us a Text Message.Episode 7: Carefully observing language classroom interaction through Conversation AnalysisShow 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.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/semi.1973.8.4.289/pdf?casa_token=43RDsMKs_5oAAAAA:Jy-8YLnSq1q62HsoHqXv...

Send us a Text Message.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.), Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech (pp. 91-116). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. (Did you know y...

Send us a Text Message.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/WZZUCykPQWEDiane mentioned this article as an example of how a research article is structured, and what the early sections of the article aims to do or not do (free to read & download): Creese, A., & Blackledge, A. (2...

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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 dialogue to multilogue: A different view on participation in the English foreign‐language classroom. Classroom Discourse, 2(1), 3-19. [Article available w...

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 article here: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=mcl_facpub  Terry Waltz - Super 7 verbs. In 2013, Haiyun Lu posted...

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 teacher, then PhD program in teacher education, then teacher education  - Both learned Chinese in China, living there for several years. Both have taught...

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  Michael Long, interaction hypothesis: “The idea that what you teach is what they learn, and when you teach it is when they learn it, is not just simplistic, it is...