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

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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!

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

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https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage

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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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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!

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

Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned:
https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage

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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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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!

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

Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned:
https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage

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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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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!

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

Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned:
https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage

We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsaboutlanguage.buzzsprout.com/2325378/supporters/new

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Episode 1 of Conversations about Language Teaching. 

Show notes: Items mentioned in the episode:

Reed’s HI TESOL article (see pp. 22-24): https://hawaiitesol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023_May.pdf 

The Krashen video (a classic clip from a talk by Dr. Stephen Krashen in the 1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w 

Michael Long, interaction hypothesis: “The idea that what you teach is what they learn, and when you teach it is when they learn it, is not just simplistic, it is wrong.” —Michael Long, 1998

(p. 38). Also, a 1983 article: https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/4/2/126/167518 

Bill VanPatten: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5PYm-ccAAAAJ  https://www.billvanpatten.net/ 

ALG (Automatic Language Growth): https://algworld.com/ 

Story Listening, Beniko Mason: https://www.beniko-mason.net/ 

TPRS: https://www.tprsbooks.com/ 

Lightbown, P. M., & Spada, N. (2021). How Languages Are Learned 5th Edition. Oxford University Press. Google Books link

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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!

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

Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned:
https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage

We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsaboutlanguage.buzzsprout.com/2325378/supporters/new