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 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/
VanPatten, B. (2017). While We're on the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. ACTFL.
VanPatten, B. (2019). The Nature of Language: A Short Guide to What's in Our Heads. ACTFL.
VanPatten, B. (2022). Language Acquisition in a Nutshell. ACTFL.
Goodreads reviews of those 3 books:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35817467-while-we-re-on-the-topic
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50659798-the-nature-of-language
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123176535-language-acquisition-in-a-nutshell
Diane's 2022 dissertation, which used topic development as a way to consider qualities of target language use in novice Chinese language classrooms:
De Bot, K. (2015). A history of applied linguistics: From 1980 to the present. Routledge.
See around p. 130 for Reed’s references regarding Krashen and his interpretation by many language teachers. The book gets into the people and the activities within the profession. A review here: https://tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume19/ej76/ej76r4/
Liam Printer's podcast, The Motivated Classroom, which includes several episodes about Self-Determination Theory and motivation:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-motivated-classroom/id1525120086
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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