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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

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Episode 1: Comprehensive Comprehensible Input

April 04, 2024 • Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD • Season 1 • Episode 1

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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 learn, and when you teach it is when they learn it, is not just simplistic, it is wrong.” —Michael Long, 1998

(p. 38). Also, a 1983 article: https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/4/2/126/167518

Bill VanPatten: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5PYm-ccAAAAJ https://www.billvanpatten.net/

ALG (Automatic Language Growth): https://algworld.com/

Story Listening, Beniko Mason: https://www.beniko-mason.net/

TPRS: https://www.tprsbooks.com/

Lightbown, P. M., & Spada, N. (2021). How Languages Are Learned 5th Edition. Oxford University Press. Google Books link

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

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Conversations about Language Teaching
Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD

"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!

More about Diane: https://sites.google.com/view/dianen/home
More about Reed: http://www.reedriggs.com

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