Conversations about Language Teaching
"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 learners, and our observations of language teaching in the US and elsewhere. We like to help build bridges among teachers and researchers and view ourselves as part of both communities. We collaborate on projects & like talking about language teaching & learning, and decided to have some of those conversations in a podcast format. Here it is! A transcripted, video version of the podcast is on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage More about Diane: https://sites.google.com/view/dianen/home More about Reed: http://www.reedriggs.com
Episodes
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 Comprehension in Online and Hybrid Classrooms. In: The University of Iowa. https://se...
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, and a final response from Lichtman & VanPatten, in the sa...
Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts
Show Notes:
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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 browse parts of the most recent edition (the 2013 4t...
Episode 14 Being a New 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 students and/or others, crediting your source): https://docs.google.com/presentat...
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 intercultural communication (pp. 204-218). Routledge. https://www.taylorfran...
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 Guide to What's in Our Heads. ACTFL.
VanPatten, B. (2022). Language Acquisit...
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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.
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Episode 9: Teacher training
Show Notes
Ngan Ta, PhD
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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 lesson preparation time when teaching five different levels: Part 1...
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.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/semi.1973.8.4.289/pdf?casa_...
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 Multilingua...
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, and what the early sections of the article aims to do or not do (free to read &...
Episode 4 Conversations about Language Teaching: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed
Show notes:
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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 ...
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?...
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 educat...
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 le...
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