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Conversations about Language Teaching

Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD

"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:

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Episodes

57 episodes

  1. Episode 55: Is PQA just drills? 40:23
  2. Episode 55: Reading in Another Language 39:51
  3. When General Ed Teachers Become Language Teachers: Teaching Multilingual Learners 37:45
  4. Episode 53: Story Asking 1:00:24
  5. Episode 52: Teacher Wellbeing & Learner Engagement 38:52
  6. Episode 51: Vertical Alignment across Language Courses 39:31
  7. Episode 50: Summer break 15:11
  8. Episode 49: Crossover podcast with SLAyyy 1:10:28
  9. Episode 48: Starting with a new group of language students 56:15
  10. Episode 47: Teacher evaluations 39:30
  11. Episode 46: Word Repetition 1:06:19
  12. Impactful Teacher Training 51:11
  13. Fools Rush In: Individual Pathways 40:37
  14. Episode 43: Discussing a language teaching video 55:01
  15. Episode 42: Do different levels of learners need different things? 41:13
  16. Episode 41: Doing Resets 39:26
  17. Episode 40: Heritage Language Learners 57:37
  18. Episode 39: Target Language for Young Learners 37:49
  19. Episode 38: ACTFL Teacher Awards as Professional Development 31:51
  20. Episode 37: "Listen & Do" 39:03
  21. Episode 36: Research & Assessment 41:35
  22. Episode 35: Language Policy in Classrooms 40:07
  23. Episode 34: Trying New Teaching Strategies 39:12
  24. Episode 33: Introducing Vocabulary 38:15
  25. Episode 32: Focus on Form 37:36
  26. Episode 31: Child Language Development & Implications for Teachers 40:15
  27. Episode 30: Purposes for Picture Talk 37:03
  28. Episode 29: Rethinking Authenticity 39:10
  29. Bonus Episode 28: 当非母语中文老师 39:12
  30. Episode 27: A Story about Student Production 37:45
  31. Episode 26: Children’s Books & Reading for Vocabulary Growth 26:32
  32. Episode 25: There Is No Best Method--Why? 39:14
  33. Episode 24: Pronunciation Development 33:49
  34. Episode 23: AI Chatbots 30:52
  35. Episode 22: Issues with Frequency Lists 39:37
  36. Episode 21: Viewers' Questions & Answers 1:00:26
  37. Episode 20: The Silent Period 29:19
  38. Episode 19: Listening comprehension as a goal 37:49
  39. Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities 47:30
  40. Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings 40:09
  41. Season 3 Episode 16: Using Authentic Texts 41:39
  42. Episode 15: Language Learner Strategies 58:25
  43. Episode 14: Being a New Teacher at a School 38:35
  44. Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching 39:45
  45. Episode 12: Communicative Purpose 39:00
  46. Episode 11: Growing from Tough Teaching Situations 37:31
  47. Episode 10: Instructional Language Play 43:54
  48. Episode 9: Teacher training 35:06
  49. Episode 8: Reducing workload by establishing classroom routines 1:03:55
  50. Episode 7: Learning about language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis 53:53