All Things Languages
USING a language is the point of Language learning. What can Language teachers do to create the space in our classrooms for students to become confident spontaneous users of Language? This honest, real and relatable content is like a chat with Susan and her fabulous guests as they keep finding great language learning and use.
Podcasting since 2020 • 81 episodes
All Things Languages
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2025 15 Use, use and use.
Not 'we teach Japanese', but 'we learn Japanese'. This refocuses the goal to the learning. But why learn it if you don't use it? So I changed my language to 'we use Japanese'. However there is use, use and use. I explain how I understand three ...
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2025 14 PB or winners?
Grades, scores and ranking students are a version of rewarding winners. The students already know who is best, medium and not so great in their class. Progress that is ongoing enables a sense of growth, takes away shame and offers a map toward ...
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2025 13 Poly the Polyglot Parrot
This is a short 5 minute pitch about the stacker rings (or cups). It includes the labels and how they support novel creative language use. Complexity - words to conversationWord, sentence, complex sentence, simple conv...
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2025 12 Baby stacker rings, how it went.
Who said baby toys were just for babies? My current iteration of solutions to the problem of making learning progressions make sense to students, worked a treat. Students helped me label the rings for three stacks, then we worked together to de...
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2025 11 How baby stacker rings might unlock learning progressions
Baby stacker rings. Think of the baby toy, where multi-coloured rings are stacked on a pole. Rather than having the three different graphics - a rainbow for independence, a tower for complexity and a flower for variety - I am experimenting with...
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