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Episode 25: There Is No Best Method–Why? Discussing Prabhu (1990)Show NotesWe discussed this article: Prabhu, N. S. (1990). There is no best method—Why?. TESOL Quarterly, 24(2), 161-176. https://...

Episode 23: AI Chatbots Show NotesDr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez-relevant link about using AI chatbots for language learning: https://clt.manoa.hawaii.edu/blog/event/ai-chatbots-2/Billie Eilish AI i...

Show Notes: Video examples of comprehension-based communicative language teaching:Hawai`i Association of Language Teacher (HALT) conference presentation recording: Overview of CCLT (descript...

This morning I listened to one of my top five podcasts, “Conversations about Language Teaching” and it happened to touch on something that I’ve been thinking a lot about this acad…

Typological research shows that across languages, trilled [r] sounds are more common in adjectives describing rough as opposed to smooth surfaces. In this study

Episode 18: Instructional ActivitiesSeedhouse, P. (2010). Locusts, snowflakes and recasts: complexity theory and spoken interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1946301100...

GaslightNot Moderating Rate of SpeechEstablishing MeaningOut of Bounds“How do you say…?”Planning for ComprehensibilityUse of #authresGatekeep - "How does lexical coverage affect the processing of L2 t...

The studies in this volume show how multilingual learners use language play in second language acquisition to internalize sets of ‘voices’ (rather than decontextualized linguistic systems), namely com...