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"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
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English
United States
56 episodes
since April 4, 2024
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3rd edition of a book Diane recommended on reading in a second language:
Grabe, W., & Stoller, F.L. (2019). Teaching and Researching Reading (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315726274
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315726274/teaching-resea…
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Show Notes: This is the online certificate Diane mentioned: https://catalog.louisville.edu/graduate/programs-study/graduate-certificate-teaching-english-intl-languge/Huynh, T., & Skelton, B. (2023). Long-term success for experienced multilinguals. Corwin Press. https://www.corw…
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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-y…
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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 e…
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“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 con…
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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 1…
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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
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Conversations about Language TeachingDiane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD"Conversations about Language Teaching" is a podcast of unscripted discussions of language teaching, draw…
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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-langu…
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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 Fr…
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