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January 9, 2025 60 mins

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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 different teaching strategies, including video clips in many language classrooms: https://kawairesources.com/Strategies 

Reed led a project to collect video data of several languages (we forgot to mention this one!): https://sites.google.com/view/tildatabase/for-language-teachers 

Diane has videos from her high school Chinese language classroom 2015-2017 (and some adult introductory classes) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DianeNeubauer 


Hawai`i Department of Education – World Languages 

The new Hawai`i World Readiness Standards for Language Learning and supporting webinars and documents are available here:

https://learningdesign.hawaiipublicschools.org/standards-based-content/world-languages


Online language classes similar to the kind of teaching Reed & Diane often discuss:

Fluency Fast: https://fluencyfast.com/ 

Express Fluency: https://expressfluency.com/ 

Elevate Educational Consulting: https://www.elevateeducationconsulting.com/ 


Link to Diane's speaking assessment video & info: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMXkl0jTQc 


Send questions to: conversationsaboutlanguage@gmail.com 

Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo

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