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
Conversations about Language Teaching
Episode 0: Bonus episode deciding the podcast scope & title
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 education
- Both learned Chinese in China, living there for several years. Both have taught K-12 Chinese in schools in the United States. Both have been involved in language teacher training for ten years.
- Diane: PhD in Language education, taught 10 years K-12 Chinese in the United States
- Reed: PhD in Chinese linguistics and Language Development, currently teaching IB Mandarin to 9-12 students
3. The podcast purpose and scope:
- New YouTube account, title of show
- Post promo video to own YouTube channels
- Post references to research, literature in show notes as links
- To talk through big and little ideas related to language teaching
- How the field as a whole is talking about these issues, and our thoughts about that
- How those can be viewed in research
- How our own experience informs our thinking about them
4. Final points
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
Thanks for listening to Conversations about Language Teaching.
Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned:
https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage
