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

Host

Reed Riggs

I teach Mandarin Chinese grades 9-12 at an IB K-12 school in Hawai‘i, where I also serve as Subject Area Lead for Japanese and Mandarin. I currently serve as Chinese Language Representative on the Hawai‘i Association of Language Teachers (HALT) Executive Board for Academic Year 2024-25, serving in prior years as Past President, President, Vice President, and Secretary. I have presented workshops for language teachers across the United States and internationally, including in China and France. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Hawai`i in 2018, and have been working in language teacher education in Hawai`i since 2012. My research ties language teaching practices with research in Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Construction Grammar with special attention on interactional competence, comprehension, context factors, and human categorization.

http://www.reedriggs.com/