Reed Riggs

This has mostly been French.

HALT: Hawai'i Association of Language Teachers - Awards 🎉2025 SWCOLT Teacher of the Year Award Winner 🎉

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Episode 25: There Is No Best Method--Why? - Conversations about Language Teaching 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://...

Next episode is a conversation about an article that makes me think about what it means to have a "method" in teaching language, & how discussions about that happen.

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Episode 23: AI Chatbots - Conversations about Language Teaching 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...

This episode is about using AI chatbots in language classes & preparing them for independent use. We specifically talked about experiences with Magic School AI. conversationsaboutlanguage.buzzsprout.com/2325378/epis...

Episode 21: Viewers' Questions & Answers - Conversations about Language Teaching Show Notes: Video examples of comprehension-based communicative language teaching:Hawai`i Association of Language Teacher (HALT) conference presentation recording: Overview of CCLT (descript...

New podcast episode, responding to questions about language teachers' learning new teaching practices & goals, "covering" lists, & gradebook issues. #langchat conversationsaboutlanguage.buzzsprout.com/2325378/epis...

Why I Embrace the Silent Period: Commentary on Podcast! 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…

I enjoyed reading Lara deVries' blog post about the silent period, in follow up to a recent Conversations about Language Teaching podcast episode on that topic. cispanish.com/2024/12/26/w...

The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages Typological research shows that across languages, trilled [r] sounds are more common in adjectives describing rough as opposed to smooth surfaces. In this study

Move over bouba-kiki!

New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them.

The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them".

#iconicity 🐦🐦

Episode 18: Complexity in Instructional Activities - Conversations about Language Teaching 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...

Next episode of Conversations about Language Teaching is out: We compare 'things' we can do in language classrooms, & I talk about some things I learned from my dissertation research.
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SLAyyy Sheltering Vocabulary - SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone 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...

Just went live - our new podcast episode where we talk about sheltering vocabulary! SLAY

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#iTeachWL heyooo happy Saturday, while you’re taking care of all your chores today why don’t you take a listen to #SLAyyy only 7 more downloads to hit 2000! @mrfishersays.bsky.social #langchat

700 days of French! I have thoughts about the normal lessons, but I am enjoying the AI chatbots, the stories, and the small narratives embedded in the normal lessons.

Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech 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...

Happy Saturday! Sharing a refereed study on language play Diane Neubauer and I had published earlier this year. books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

Episode 17: Comparing language teaching settings

Episode 17 of our podcast about language teaching just released yesterday. @dianeneubauer.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2xxn...