Conversations about Language Teaching

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  Episode 53: Story Asking 16.09.2026 1t

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 53: Story Asking Show Notes: Neubauer, D. & Riggs, R. (2026). Story-asking: Imaginative, co-created stories. Ludic Language Pedagogy Special Issue: The Ludic You Love, 69–74. https://doi.org/10.55853/llp_lyl09. Link to article: https://llpjournal.org/2026/07/01/ludic-you-love-09-story-asking Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Conversations about Language Teaching Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs,...
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  Episode 52: Teacher Wellbeing & Learner Engagement 03.09.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 52: Teacher Wellbeing & Learner Engagement Show Notes *Updated audio: Diane edited audio for Reed's part of this conversation because his recording was too faint to hear easily. Thank you, listeners, for noting the problem before we did & letting us know! The editing isn't perfect, but it's at least audible now* This episode was based around the short, 2026 thinkpiece by Sarah Mercer & Jasrael Stokes. It's available at the link (no paywall) in the citation...
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  Episode 51: Vertical Alignment across Language Courses 20.08.2026 39min

  Send us Fan Mail “Vertical Articulation” definitions Acquah, B. Y. S., & Owusu, A. A. (2021). Vertical Articulation and Content Relevance of the Senior High School Economics Curriculum: Case of Ghana. Asian Journal of Education and Training, 7(3), 169-178, p. 170 “…the interconnectedness of concepts within a curriculum (Kannan, 2016). There is vertical articulation when the lessons to be taken in a subject are related to those occurring later in the curriculum sequence, implying the organ...
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  Episode 50: Summer break 30.05.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 50: Summer break Show Notes Several language teaching conferences were mentioned: CI Reboot: June 20, 25-27 online https://fluencyfast.com/cireboot/ Comprehensible Iowa: June 12 & 13, 2026 in Iowa https://comprehensibleiowa.wordpress.com/registration/ CI Summit: July 15-17, 2026 in Cincinnati, Ohio -- Use code TEAM for $100 off registration https://cisummit.live/register.php Reed suggested episodes 19, 29, 40, & 43. Diane suggested episodes...
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  Episode 49: Crossover podcast with SLAyyy 14.05.2026 1t 10min

  Send us Fan Mail Thanks to Karen Rowan and the online language teacher conference, CI Reboot 2026 https://fluencyfast.com/cireboot/ for bringing us together with a favorite podcast, SLAyyy! Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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...
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  Episode 48: Starting with a new group of language students 23.04.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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...
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  Episode 47: Teacher evaluations 09.04.2026 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 47 - Teacher evaluations Bryce Hedstrom’s observation checklist: https://www.brycehedstrom.com/wp-content/uploads/Checklist-for-Observing-a-WL-Classroom-2.pdf Reed mentioned two books about use of translation in language teaching: Kerr, P. (2014). Translation and own-language activities. Cambridge University Press. https://a.co/d/0b4fjY57 Cook, G. (2010). Translation in language teaching: An argument for reassessment. Oxford University Press. https://www.thrif...
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  Episode 46: Word Repetition 26.03.2026 1t 6min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 46: Word Repetition -- Show Notes We discussed TCI Oregon, June 29-July 1, 2026: https://cocc.edu/departments/community-ed/tci Diane mentioned several "button using" animal accounts on social media: ElsieWants, Flounder_Meatloaf, What about Bunny, and Pixel and Friends Diane also mentioned: Glisan, E. W., & Donato, R. (2017). Enacting the Work of Language Instruction: High-Leverage Teaching Practices. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 10...
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  Impactful Teacher Training 12.03.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 45: Impactful Teacher Training Show notes: Diane mentioned this article: Neubauer, D., & Wesely, P. (2023). K-12 world language teachers’ use of conferences as professional development. Teaching and Teacher Education, 124, 104042. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0742051X23000306 The ACTFL Past President who spoke at ACTFL Convention 2025 is Milton Alan Turner. Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPaz...
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  Fools Rush In: Individual Pathways 26.02.2026 40min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 44: Fools Rush In: Individual Pathways Reed started the conversation with a quote from the book The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nurture-Assumption/Judith-Rich-Harris/9781439101650 Diane mentioned the book Quiet by Susan Cain https://susancain.net/book/quiet/ Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Conversations abo...
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  Episode 43: Discussing a language teaching video 12.02.2026 55min

  Send us Fan Mail Show notes: The video clip we watched & discussed is on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/VlZESXSvi-Q Adriana Ramírez's website: https://www.adrianaramirez.ca/ Adriana has a podcast co-hosted with Margarita Pérez García, in Spanish: Armando Bochinche Diane mentioned Paul Seedhouse's work, & paraphrased from his book The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom (2004). Seedhouse, P. (2004). The interactional architecture of the language classroom: A co...
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  Episode 42: Do different levels of learners need different things? 29.01.2026 41min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 42: Do different levels of language learners need different things? Show Notes Mitten CI language teaching conference April 17 & 18, 2026: https://mittenci.weebly.com/ Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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 an...
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  Episode 41: Doing Resets 15.01.2026 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 41 Show Notes: Diane mentioned this episode of the Mel Robbins podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHpFwHYDnKE Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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 ...
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  Episode 40: Heritage Language Learners 01.01.2026 57min

  Send us Fan Mail Thank you to our guest, Dan Call, who joined us for this episode! Information about Dan's award as Pacific Northwest Regional Teacher of the Year: https://www.actfl.org/career-development/actfl-awards/teacher-of-the-year-program/hall-of-fame-2026/dan-call Dan's LinkedIn Profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-call-377256179 Show notes: Funds of knowledge is a term initially created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (information here: https://www.clrn.org/how-to-us...
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  Episode 39: Target Language for Young Learners 18.12.2025 37min

  Send us Fan Mail Show Notes: Diane mentioned studies that have found children process language more slowly than adults. One such study is here: Nip, I. S. B., & Green, J. R. (2013). Increases in Cognitive and Linguistic Processing Primarily Account for Increases in Speaking Rate With Age. Child Development, 84(4), 1324–1337. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23469381 Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Conversations about La...
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  Episode 38: ACTFL Teacher Awards as Professional Development 04.12.2025 31min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 38: ACTFL Language Teacher Awards as Professional Development Show Notes Guest: Ngan-Ha Ta, PhD Ngan's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nganhata ACTFL Convention & World Languages Expo information: https://www.actfl.org/convention-and-expo Our previous episode with Ngan: Episode 9: Teacher Training https://www.buzzsprout.com/2325378/episodes/15292383 Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the...
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  Episode 37: "Listen & Do" 20.11.2025 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Show Notes: Episode 37: "Listen & Do" in language teaching Reed mentioned: Ellis, R., & He, X. (1999). The roles of modified input and output in the incidental acquisition of word meanings. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 285-301. https://www.scribd.com/document/359925425/10-0000-www-cambridge-org-3B026C16F7E59E3458121D43E055741D We also mentioned: Shintani, N. (2012). Input-based tasks and the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar: A process-prod...
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  Episode 36: Research & Assessment 06.11.2025 41min

  Send us Fan Mail Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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...
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  Episode 35: Language Policy in Classrooms 23.10.2025 40min

  Send us Fan Mail Menken & Garcia, 2010 ch. 16 Johnson, 2013 ACTFL 90%+ TL use position statement Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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 cl...
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  Episode 34: Trying New Teaching Strategies 09.10.2025 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show 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...