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 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers
Show Notes: Episode 31 (season 4) show notes: Child language development & implications for teachers
Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 7 was about Conversation Analysis:
YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zny0LLUh3TM
Audio-only podcast episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/2325378/episodes/15229325-episode-7-learning-about-language-classroom-interaction-through-conversation-analysis
Reed mentioned this presentation by Lourdes Ortega:
Ortega, L. (2017). The bi/multilingual turn in SLA: How far have we (not) come, and why. In 36th Second Language Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Reed referenced Ninio’s research on child syntax (ex, word order), such as the following:
Ninio, A. (2014). Learning a generative syntax from transparent syntactic atoms in the linguistic input. Journal of Child Language, 41(6), 1249-1275. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/4230B7158CA10B4F20454430F3A9B6BE/S0305000913000470a.pdf/learning-a-generative-syntax-from-transparent-syntactic-atoms-in-the-linguistic-input.pdf
Ninio, A. (2011). Syntactic development, its input and output. Oxford University Press. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tJ2k_KeoRhcC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Ninio+child+syntax&ots=ycNoteZRsf&sig=EvZ0KYIbqXytHtPE6-P41jFUJE0#v=onepage&q=Ninio%20child%20syntax&f=false
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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