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 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 a demo): https://youtu.be/h0Xd6zVSlxU?si=dIdenoWArOmYlW-q
Teachers from Hawai`i developed a website including descriptions of different teaching strategies, including video clips in many language classrooms: https://kawairesources.com/Strategies
Reed led a project to collect video data of several languages (we forgot to mention this one!): https://sites.google.com/view/tildatabase/for-language-teachers
Diane has videos from her high school Chinese language classroom 2015-2017 (and some adult introductory classes) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DianeNeubauer
Hawai`i Department of Education – World Languages
The new Hawai`i World Readiness Standards for Language Learning and supporting webinars and documents are available here:
https://learningdesign.hawaiipublicschools.org/standards-based-content/world-languages
Online language classes similar to the kind of teaching Reed & Diane often discuss:
Fluency Fast: https://fluencyfast.com/
Express Fluency: https://expressfluency.com/
Elevate Educational Consulting: https://www.elevateeducationconsulting.com/
Link to Diane's speaking assessment video & info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMXkl0jTQc
Send questions to: conversationsaboutlanguage@gmail.com
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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