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
Episodes
36 episodes
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Episode 35: Language Policy in Classrooms
Menken & Garcia, 2010 ch. 16 Johnson, 2013ACTFL 90%+ TL use position statement
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Episode 33: Introducing Vocabulary
Episode 33: Introducing Vocabulary Show Notes Diane mentioned the book Vocabulary Myths by Keith Folse. Here is the publisher's site about it: https://press.umich....
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Episode 32: Focus on Form
Episode 32 Show notes - Focus on Form Michael Long’s thinking about “focus on meaning,” “focus on form,’ and “focus on forms” in language teaching, for example: Long, M. (2008). Focus on form in task-based languag...
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Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers
Show Notes: Episode 31 (season 4) show notes: Child language development & implications for teachersConversations about Language Teaching Episode 7 was about Conversation Analysis: YouTube video
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Episode 31
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Episode 30: Purposes for Picture Talk
Episode 30 Show Notes -- Purposes for Picture Talk Link to Cheng & Tsui webinar (mentioned by Diane as included Picture Talk): https://youtu.be/HinXS0n762g eBook (inc...
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Episode 29: Rethinking Authenticity
Episode 29 Show Notes - Rethinking Authenticity Hasegawa, A. (2018). Understanding task‐in‐process through the lens of laughter: Activity designs, instructional materials, learner orientations, and interpersonal relationships...
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Episode 29
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Bonus Episode 28: 当非母语中文老师
This episode is in Mandarin Chinese. Reed & Diane talk about their experiences as non-native learners, users, and teachers of Mandarin Chinese.
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Episode 28
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Episode 27: A Story about Student Production
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Episode 27
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Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth
Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth Show NotesThe Mandarin Companion blog has concise & helpful information about Extensive reading (ER) and 98% known language. This post also de...
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Episode 26
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Episode 25: There Is No Best Method--Why?
Episode 25: There Is No Best Method–Why? Discussing Prabhu (1990)Show NotesWe discussed this article: Prabhu, N. S. (1990). There is no best method—Why?. TESOL Quarterly, 24(2), 161-176.
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Episode 24: Pronunciation Development
Episode 24 - Pronunciation developmentReed’s grad school classmate's study:https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/phd-student-wenyi-ling-2018-r...
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Episode 23: AI Chatbots
Episode 23: AI Chatbots Show NotesDr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez-relevant link about using AI chatbots for language learning: https://clt.manoa.hawai...
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Episode 22: Issues with Frequency Lists
Episode 22 Show NotesMichael Long quote is on pp. 6-7 of the following, available freely online at the link: Long, M. H. (2016). In defense of tasks and TBLT: Nonissues and real issues. Annual Review of Applied Li...
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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...
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Episode 20: The Silent Period
Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 20: The Silent Period Show NotesSearch results on Google Scholar for “silent period second language acquisition”
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Episode 20
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Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal
Conversations about Language Teaching Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goalShow NotesWe welcome questions and topics to address! We're aiming for episode 21 to be responding to questions. Write to us at conversations...
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Episode 19
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Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities
Episode 18: Instructional ActivitiesSeedhouse, P. (2010). Locusts, snowflakes and recasts: complexity theory and spoken interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1(1), 4–24.
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Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings
Episode 17 Show notesLichtman, K., & VanPatten, B. (2021). Was Krashen right? Forty years later. Foreign Language Annals, 54(2), 283-305. https:/...
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Episode 17
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Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts
Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic TextsShow Notes:
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Episode 16
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Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies
Season 2 Episode 15: Language Learner StrategiesShow NotesThe chapter is chapter 34 in this book: Celce-Murcia, M., Brinton, D., & Snow, M. A., Eds. (2014). Teaching English as a Second Or Foreign Language. Nati...
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Episode 15
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Episode 14: Being a New Teacher at a School
Episode 14 Being a New Teacher at a SchoolShow NotesNgan-Ha Ta https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata GLAD (Guided Language Acquisiti...
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Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching
Episode 13: Culture and Language TeachingShow NotesClaire Kramsch: https://german.berkeley.edu/people/claire-kramsch/ A book chapter she co-authored, i...
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