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 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., & Riggs, R. (2024). Chapter 5 Pedagogical language play in a beginning L2 Chinese classroom. In L. Darren & T. Elaine (Eds.), Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech (pp. 91-116). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
(Did you know you can ask researchers directly for a copy of their published research? conversationsaboutlanguage at gmail.com)
Laurie Clarcq, Spanish teacher & teacher trainer: http://www.heartsforteaching.com/
Claudia Elliott and her podcast, Growing with Proficiency: https://growingwithproficiency.com/growing-with-proficiency-the-podcast/
We mentioned the Present, Practice, Produce model of instruction (we are not recommending this), Skill Acquisition Theory (Robert DeKeyser), and Behaviorism
Season 1, Episode 4 was about Diane & Reed teacher experiences and trajectory: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2325378/episodes/14822099
Reed’s article in Hawai`i TESOL:
Riggs, R. (2023). Natural re-use of language through open topic spaces. The Word, 32(2), 15-17. Hawai‘i TESOL. https://hawaiitesol.org/news/newsletter/newsletter-archive/
Diane’s parents learning Mandarin Chinese (the audio quality is low, that was impromptu recording): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrmMNMTNomuJiJpl8y3xB_p
Paul Seedhouse book 2004 mentions a Form-and-accuracy context and a Meaning-and-fluency context in language classroom interaction:
Seedhouse, P. (2004). The interactional architecture of the language classroom: A conversation analysis perspective. Language Learning.
On psychosocial & cognitive informational purposes for communication:
VanPatten, B. (2017). While We're on the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. ACTFL.
Ngan Ta, teacher educator and Mandarin Chinese language teacher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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