Conversations about Language Teaching
"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: https://sites.google.com/view/dianen/home
More about Reed: http://www.reedriggs.com
Conversations about Language Teaching
Episode 3: Seating and physical classroom set up
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.
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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