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Conversations about Language Teaching

Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD

"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

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Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal

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2024/12/12

Send us a textConversations about Language Teaching Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goalShow NotesWe welcome questions and topics to address! We're aiming for episode 21 to be responding to questions. Write to us at conversationsaboutlanguage@gmail.com.Lichtman, K. (2019). Research on TPR Storytelling (TPRS). Fluency through TPR storytelling, 299-323. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen-Lichtman/publication/335240603_Research_on_TPR_Storytelling_2019/links/5d5aa3fb92851c37636a...

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Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities

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2024/11/28

Send us a textEpisode 18: Instructional ActivitiesSeedhouse, 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 Comprehension in Online and Hybrid Classrooms. In: The University of Iowa. https://search.proquest.com/openview/4404f8257451ba7a5d4999aa1718c590/1?...

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Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings

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2024/11/14

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...

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Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts

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2024/10/31

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

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Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies

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2024/10/17

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, ...

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Episode 14: Being New at a School

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2024/10/03

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...

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Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching

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2024/09/19

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...

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Episode 12: Communicative Purpose

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2024/09/05

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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Episode 11: Growing from Tough Audiences

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2024/08/22

Send us a Text Message.Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the Show.

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Episode 10: Instructional Language Play

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2024/08/08

Send us a Text Message.Episode 10: Instructional Language Play Show NotesIntro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the Show.

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Episode 9: Teacher training

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2024/07/25

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.

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Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing...

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2024/07/11

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...

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Episode 7: Learning about language classroom...

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2024/06/27

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...

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Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language"...

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2024/06/13

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...

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Episode 5: What can language teachers get from research?

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2024/05/30

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...

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Episode 4: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed

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2024/05/16

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.

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Episode 3: Seating and physical classroom set up

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2024/05/02

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Episode 2: Planning lessons for beginning language...

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2024/04/18

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Episode 0: Bonus episode deciding the podcast scope &...

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2024/04/11

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Episode 1: Comprehensive Comprehensible Input

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2024/04/04

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