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
27 episodes
Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth
Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth Show NotesThe Mandarin Companion blog has concise & helpful information about Extensive reading (ER) and 98% known language. This post also de...
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Episode 26
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Episode 25: There Is No Best Method--Why?
Episode 25: There Is No Best Method–Why? Discussing Prabhu (1990)Show NotesWe discussed this article: Prabhu, N. S. (1990). There is no best method—Why?. TESOL Quarterly, 24(2), 161-176.
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Episode 25
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39:14
Episode 24: Pronunciation Development
Episode 24 - Pronunciation developmentReed’s grad school classmate's study:https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/phd-student-wenyi-ling-2018-r...
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Episode 24
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33:49
Episode 23: AI Chatbots
Episode 23: AI Chatbots Show NotesDr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez-relevant link about using AI chatbots for language learning: https://clt.manoa.hawai...
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Episode 23
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30:52
Episode 22: Issues with Frequency Lists
Episode 22 Show NotesMichael Long quote is on pp. 6-7 of the following, available freely online at the link: Long, M. H. (2016). In defense of tasks and TBLT: Nonissues and real issues. Annual Review of Applied Li...
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39:37
Episode 21: Viewers' Questions & Answers
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...
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1:00:26
Episode 20: The Silent Period
Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 20: The Silent Period Show NotesSearch results on Google Scholar for “silent period second language acquisition”
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Episode 20
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29:19
Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal
Conversations 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 conversations...
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Episode 19
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37:49
Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities
Episode 18: Instructional ActivitiesSeedhouse, P. (2010). Locusts, snowflakes and recasts: complexity theory and spoken interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1(1), 4–24.
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Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings
Episode 17 Show notesLichtman, K., & VanPatten, B. (2021). Was Krashen right? Forty years later. Foreign Language Annals, 54(2), 283-305. https:/...
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Episode 17
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40:09
Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts
Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic TextsShow Notes:
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Episode 16
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41:39
Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies
Season 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. Nati...
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Episode 15
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58:25
Episode 14: Being a New Teacher at a School
Episode 14 Being a New Teacher at a SchoolShow NotesNgan-Ha Ta https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata GLAD (Guided Language Acquisiti...
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Episode 14
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38:35
Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching
Episode 13: Culture and Language TeachingShow NotesClaire Kramsch: https://german.berkeley.edu/people/claire-kramsch/ A book chapter she co-authored, i...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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39:45
Episode 12: Communicative Purpose
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/VanPa...
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Episode 12
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39:00
Episode 10: Instructional Language Play
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 10
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43:54
Episode 9: Teacher training
Episode 9: Teacher trainingShow NotesNgan Ta, PhD
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Episode 9
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35:06
Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines
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-emoti...
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Episode 8
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Episode 7: Learning about language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis
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...
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Episode 7
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53:53
Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language" versus "language for communication"
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., & ...
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Episode 6
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41:14
Episode 5: What can language teachers get from research?
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 Languag...
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Episode 5
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38:07
Episode 4: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed
Episode 4 Conversations about Language Teaching: Personal teaching histories from Diane & ReedShow notes:
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Episode 4
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