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Conversations about Language Teaching

By: Diane Neubauer PhD & Reed Riggs PhD
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  • "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

    Season 1 episodes (5 regular + 1 bonus episode) will be released in April & May 2024. Season 2 to come later in 2024.

    More about Diane: https://sites.google.com/view/dianen/home
    More about Reed: http://www.reedriggs.com

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Episodes
  • Episode 4: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed

    Episode 4: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed
    May 16 2024

    Episode 4 Conversations about Language Teaching: Personal teaching histories from Diane & Reed

    Show notes:

    Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo

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    57 mins
  • Episode 3: Seating and physical classroom set up

    Episode 3: Seating and physical classroom set up
    May 2 2024

    Episode 3 Conversations about Language Teaching: Seating and physical classroom set up and how that affects teaching & learning

    Show notes:

    STARTALK is a US-funded program for critical languages teacher and student training. More info:
    The "I do, we do, you do" model is mentioned in this STARTALK publication.

    Schwab, G. (2011). From dialogue to multilogue: A different view on participation in the English foreign‐language classroom. Classroom Discourse, 2(1), 3-19. [Article available with no paywall here.]


    Diane's high school classroom tour videos are in this YouTube playlist. (Three videos are of in-person high school classrooms; one video is of Diane's set up for conducting online classes.)


    Unschooling: Wikipedia description


    More about Diane's online Chinese instructional activities can be found in several posts where she blogs.

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    32 mins
  • Episode 2: Planning lessons for beginning language learners

    Episode 2: Planning lessons for beginning language learners
    Apr 18 2024

    Episode 2 of Conversations about Language Teaching: Planning Lessons for Beginning Language Learners

    Show Notes:
    The Agen Workshop https://theagenworkshop.com/

    Swanson, P. B. (2010). Teacher efficacy and attrition: Helping students at introductory levels of language instruction appears critical. Hispania, 305-321.

    Read/download the article here: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=mcl_facpub


    Terry Waltz - Super 7 verbs. In 2013, Haiyun Lu posted Terry’s comments about them on her former blog, with permission, here: https://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/2013/07/super-seven.html

    Robert Harrell - German teacher, teacher educator, and writer: https://robertlharrell.com/about-me

    Ben Tinsley - MapTalk described by Ben here: https://comprehensibleclassroom.com/2022/08/30/use-map-talk-to-foster-interculturality/

    Diane mentioned a short video clip featuring a cat, mouse, and another animal. That's at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwy4X4F3mB4

    Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo

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    32 mins
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