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Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines

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Some of the opening of class routines mentioned:

Free Writes / Fluency Writing

Map Talk

How Are You? / Social-emotional check-ins

Calendar Talk

Diane's classroom tour videos showing word posters are in this YouTube playlist.

Diane's blog posts about reducing lesson preparation time when teaching five different levels: Part 1 and Part 2

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Episode 7: Carefully observing language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis

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Harvey Sacks and Emmanuel Schlegoff Their 1973 study, which more or less became a standard for Conversation Analysis as a research approach and methodology: Schegloff, E. A., & Sacks, H. (1973). Opening up closings. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/semi.1973.8.4.289/pdf?casa_token=43RDsMKs_5oAAAAA:Jy-8YLnSq1q62HsoHqXvozp4_E32PaP5q0f6qKyj43KC99eWiyXXG8CWltMqiCmURz7dVcy-dO6ORQ

IB (International Baccalaureate) schools final examination: Sustaining interaction: Criterion C is mentioned in this overview of IB schooling: https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/new-structure/brochures-and-infographics/pdfs/myp-brief-language-acquisition-2020-en.pdf

Heritage & Clayman (2010) article (Reed left out two of the authors’ names when he spoke, apologies): Clayman, S. E., Elliott, M. N., Heritage, J., & Beckett, M. K. (2010). A watershed in White House journalism: Explaining the post-1968 rise of aggressive presidential news. Political Communication, 27(3), 229-247. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10584609.2010.496712

Olcay Sert (2015) book: Sert, O. (2015). Social interaction and L2 classroom discourse. Edinburgh University Press. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JBIlDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=olcay+sert+2015&ots=DLVDZV8frV&sig=2Go1dqUTwVfh5rxgr6IDs3YvWY0#v=onepage&q=olcay%20sert%202015&f=false

Paul Seedhouse book that Diane has a lot of places marked with tabs, and which she read from sections of pp. 58-59 and p. 62: Seedhouse, P. (2004). The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom: A Conversation Analysis Perspective. Language Learning, 54(Suppl1), x–300. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2004.00266.x

My dissertation: Neubauer, D. (2022). Chinese language instruction with novice learners: target language topic development, engagement, and comprehension in online and hybrid classrooms (Doctoral dissertation, The University of Iowa). https://iro.uiowa.edu/view/pdfCoverPage?instCode=01IOWA_INST&filePid=13851224420002771&download=true

Study related to language play by Diane & Reed:

Neubauer, D., & Riggs, R. (2024). Pedagogical language play in a beginning L2 Chinese classroom. Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech: Pedagogical and Theoretical Implications, ch. 9, 91-116. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110787696/

[Did you know it is often permitted for authors of a study to share a copy of their published work, if you contact them directly and ask? Conversationsaboutlanguage @ gmail.com

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Episode 6: Planning: "Communication for language" versus "language for communication" Show Notes:

Reed mentioned a research study we did related to language play at the Agen Workshop. That is here:

Neubauer, D., & Riggs, R. (2024). Chapter 5 Pedagogical language play in a beginning L2 Chinese classroom. In L. Darren & T. Elaine (Eds.), Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech (pp. 91-116). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

(Did you know you can ask researchers directly for a copy of their published research? conversationsaboutlanguage at gmail.com)

Laurie Clarcq, Spanish teacher & teacher trainer: http://www.heartsforteaching.com/

Claudia Elliott and her podcast, Growing with Proficiency: https://growingwithproficiency.com/growing-with-proficiency-the-podcast/

We mentioned the Present, Practice, Produce model of instruction (we are not recommending this), Skill Acquisition Theory (Robert DeKeyser), and Behaviorism

Season 1, Episode 4 was about Diane & Reed teacher experiences and trajectory: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2325378/episodes/14822099

Reed’s article in Hawai`i TESOL:

Riggs, R. (2023). Natural re-use of language through open topic spaces. The Word, 32(2), 15-17. Hawai‘i TESOL. https://hawaiitesol.org/news/newsletter/newsletter-archive/​

Diane’s parents learning Mandarin Chinese (the audio quality is low, that was impromptu recording): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaX8Z4AkGZrmMNMTNomuJiJpl8y3xB_p

Paul Seedhouse book 2004 mentions a Form-and-accuracy context and a Meaning-and-fluency context in language classroom interaction:

Seedhouse, P. (2004). The interactional architecture of the language classroom: A conversation analysis perspective. Language Learning.

On psychosocial & cognitive informational purposes for communication:

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

Ngan Ta, teacher educator and Mandarin Chinese language teacher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata

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Episode 5 of Conversations about Language Teaching: What can language teachers get from research?

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Video (8m 31s) by Mango Languages, What is Second Language Acquisition (SLA)? | Science Behind Language Learning https://youtu.be/WZZUCykPQWE

Diane mentioned this article as an example of how a research article is structured, and what the early sections of the article aims to do or not do (free to read & download):

Creese, A., & Blackledge, A. (2010). Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching?. The Modern Language Journal, 94(1), 103-115. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00986.x

Reed mentioned Patsy Lightbown’s article (free to read & download):

Lightbown, P. M. (1985). Great expectations: Second-language acquisition research and classroom teaching. Applied Linguistics, 6(2), 173-189. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patsy-Lightbown/publication/30989447_Great_Expectations_Second-Language_Acquisition_Research_and_Classroom_Teaching/links/54b687380cf2e68eb27e9aaf/Great-Expectations-Second-Language-Acquisition-Research-and-Classroom-Teaching.pdf

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

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

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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

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Bonus episode 0 of Conversations about Language Teaching.

SHOW NOTES: Our actual notes for planning this podcast episode & the podcast overall.

1. Deciding on a title for the show: Conversations about language teaching with Diane Neubauer and Reed Riggs

2. Blurbs about us:

- Diane came from being a language learner, then a language teacher, then PhD program in teacher education, then teacher education

- Both learned Chinese in China, living there for several years. Both have taught K-12 Chinese in schools in the United States. Both have been involved in language teacher training for ten years.

- Diane: PhD in Language education, taught 10 years K-12 Chinese in the United States

- Reed: PhD in Chinese linguistics and Language Development, currently teaching IB Mandarin to 9-12 students

3. The podcast purpose and scope:

- New YouTube account, title of show
- Post promo video to own YouTube channels
- Post references to research, literature in show notes as links

1. To talk through big and little ideas related to language teaching
2. How the field as a whole is talking about these issues, and our thoughts about that
3. How those can be viewed in research
4. How our own experience informs our thinking about them

4. Final points

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