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 7: Learning about language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis
Episode 7: Carefully observing language classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis
Show notes:
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://ww
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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