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:  Mercer, S., & Stokes, J. (2026). The chicken and the egg: The interplay between language teacher wellbeing and learner engagement. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching [e-FLT], 23 (Supplement), 2–8. https://doi.org/10.56040/smjs2311 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 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! More about Diane: https://sites.google.com/view/dianen/home More about Reed: http://www.reedriggs.com Watch on YouTube where episodes are captioned: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguage We welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsaboutlanguage.buzzsprout.com/2325378/supporters/new