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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

Recent Episodes

Episode 55: Reading in Another Language

Send us Fan Mail 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-researching-reading-william-grabe-fredricka-stoller Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the show Conversations about Language Teaching Diane Neubauer, PhD &amp...

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When General Ed Teachers Become Language Teachers: Teaching Multilingual Learners

Send us Fan Mail 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.corwin.com/books/long-term-success-for-exp-multi-282896 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123216205-long-term-success-for-experienced-multilinguals Fenner, D. S., Snyder, S., & G...

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Episode 53: Story Asking

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

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

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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