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Episode 46: Word Repetition -- Show Notes

Diane mentioned several "button using" animal accounts on social media: ElsieWants, Flounder_Meatloaf, What about Bunny, and Pixel and Friends

Diane also mentioned:

Glisan, E. W., & Donato, R. (2017). Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 1001 North Fairfax Street Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55132595-enacting-the-work-of-language-instruction-volume-1

Reed cited:

Ellis, N. C., & Ferreira–Junior, F. (2009). Construction learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, and function. The Modern Language Journal, 93(3), 370-385.

Tavakoli, P., & Foster, P. (2011). Task design and second language performance: The effect of narrative type on learner output. Language Learning, 61, 37-72.

VanPatten, B. (2017). While We're on the Topic: BVP on Language, Acquisition, and Classroom Practice. ACTFL: Alexandria, VA.

Riggs, R. (2021). What we talk about when we talk about “repetition”. The Word, 31(1), 7-9. Hawai‘i TESOL. Retrievable from link (2021 Sep): https://hawaiitesol.org/news/newsletter/newsletter-archive/

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Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD

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Episode 45: Impactful Teacher Training

Show notes:

Diane mentioned this article:
Neubauer, D., & Wesely, P. (2023). K-12 world language teachers’ use of conferences as professional development. Teaching and Teacher Education, 124, 104042. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0742051X23000306

The ACTFL Past President who spoke at ACTFL Convention 2025 is Milton Alan Turner.

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Episode 44: Fools Rush In: Individual Pathways

Reed started the conversation with a quote from the book The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nurture-Assumption/Judith-Rich-Harris/9781439101650

Diane mentioned the book Quiet by Susan Cain https://susancain.net/book/quiet/

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Show notes:

The video clip we watched & discussed is on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/VlZESXSvi-Q

Adriana Ramírez's website: https://www.adrianaramirez.ca/

Adriana has a podcast co-hosted with Margarita Pérez García, in Spanish: Armando Bochinche

Diane mentioned Paul Seedhouse's work, & paraphrased from his book The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom (2004). Seedhouse, P. (2004). The interactional architecture of the language classroom: A conversation analysis perspective. Language Learning.

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Episode 42: Do different levels of language learners need different things?

Show Notes

Mitten CI language teaching conference April 17 & 18, 2026: https://mittenci.weebly.com/

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Episode 41 Show Notes:

Diane mentioned this episode of the Mel Robbins podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHpFwHYDnKE

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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!

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Thank you to our guest, Dan Call, who joined us for this episode! Information about Dan's award as Pacific Northwest Regional Teacher of the Year: https://www.actfl.org/career-development/actfl-awards/teacher-of-the-year-program/hall-of-fame-2026/dan-call

Dan's LinkedIn Profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-call-377256179

Show notes:

Funds of knowledge is a term initially created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (information here: https://www.clrn.org/how-to-use-funds-of-knowledge-in-the-classroom/) Seeing and drawing upon students' funds of knowledge is part of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. More information here: https://www.clrn.org/what-is-culturally-responsive-pedagogy/

Tara Yosso and community cultural wealth: https://www.tarajyossophd.com/about

Ofelia García and translanguaging -- a nice starting place is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1CcrRrck0

Dr. García is a widely cited scholar. Her Google Scholar profile is here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_HJgviUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

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Show Notes:

Diane mentioned studies that have found children process language more slowly than adults. One such study is here:

Nip, I. S. B., & Green, J. R. (2013). Increases in Cognitive and Linguistic Processing Primarily Account for Increases in Speaking Rate With Age. Child Development, 84(4), 1324–1337. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23469381

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