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 you can ask researchers ...

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. (2010). Translanguaging i...

Episode 4 Conversations about Language Teaching: Personal teaching histories from Diane & ReedShow notes:Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the Show.

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...