What's coming up in the next episode? What do people have to say about past podcast episodes? What are past guests and contributors up to? Explore these questions and more in our Midweek News which includes a preview of this Friday's episode! The interactive PDF is the newsletter with clickable links. CLICK HERE: 85 … Continue reading We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #85 – March 1, 2020
We Teach Languages Episode 135: Indigenous Language Revitalization, Teacher Development, and NILI with Robert Elliott
In ep 135, Stacey continues her interview with Robert Elliott, a conversation they started on episode 73 of the Leading Lines podcast. In this episode, Robert describes the work of the Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI), how teachers of any language can support indigenous language revitalization, and how Native American language teachers can take advantage of the summer offerings at NILI.
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We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #84 – February 19, 2020
What's coming up in the next episode? What do people have to say about past podcast episodes? What are past guests and contributors up to? Explore these questions and more in our Midweek News which includes a preview of this Friday's episode! The interactive PDF is the newsletter with clickable links. CLICK HERE: 84 … Continue reading We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #84 – February 19, 2020
We Teach Languages at CSCTFL 2020
Are you going to CSCTFL (Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) March 12-14th in Minneapolis? If so, don't miss all of our excellent WTL contributors who will presenting there. Maris Hawkins has put together this list to guide you as you pick your sessions! Workshops on March 12, 2020 Linda Egnatz … Continue reading We Teach Languages at CSCTFL 2020
We Teach Languages Episode 134: One Year of Biblical Hebrew with Jesse Scheumann
In ep 134, Stacey interviews Professor Jesse Scheumann about how he teaches Biblical Hebrew. Despite preconceptions about what it is like to learn a Biblical language, Jesse's classroom has no desks or grammar textbook and also involves movement, stories, and other techniques from communicative language teaching approaches. By the end of their first year of Hebrew, Jesse's students are reading the book of Jonah from cover to cover in the original Hebrew Bible.
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We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #83 – February 12, 2020
What's coming up in the next episode? What do people have to say about past podcast episodes? What are past guests and contributors up to? Explore these questions and more in our Midweek News which includes a preview of this Friday's episode! The interactive PDF is the newsletter with clickable links. CLICK HERE: 83 … Continue reading We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #83 – February 12, 2020
We Teach Languages Episode 133: Organizing our Instruction and the Experiential Learning Cycle
In ep 133, Stacey presents several approaches to organizing our instruction in order to help give shape to our lesson, enable more efficient decision-making by the instructor, and ensure that students get everything they need out of a lesson. Stacey first references lesson organization by Lance Piantaggini, Meredith White, and Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell, then goes on to explore in depth the experiential learning cycle and its applications in the language classroom. Stacey shows that many useful methods and techniques are already aligned with an inductive, experiential approach including the PACE model for teaching grammar, the IMAGE model for teaching culture, TBLT (task-based language teaching), and multiliteracies pedagogy..
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We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #82 – January 29, 2020
How can the experiential learning cycle help me organize my teaching? What do people have to say about past podcast episodes? What are past guests and contributors up to? Explore these questions and more in our Midweek News which includes a preview of this Friday's episode! The interactive PDF is the newsletter with clickable … Continue reading We Teach Languages Midweek News Issue #82 – January 29, 2020
We Teach Languages at NECTFL 2020
Are you going to NECTFL (Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) February 13-14th in New York City? If so, don't miss all of our excellent WTL contributors who will presenting there. Maris Hawkins has put together this list to guide you as you pick your sessions! Pre-Conference Workshops on Thursday, February 13 … Continue reading We Teach Languages at NECTFL 2020