Ben got to meet Sara Lee in person this weekend! We interviewed Sara on episode 15 about supporting students with dyslexia: rss.com/podcasts/sla...

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GaslightLack of Training and PreparationReading IEPs and 504sDiagnosis - or No?Gatekeep - Sara Lee, 2024 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching TOYFormative Assessment to Evaluate Strengths and Nee...

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Really enjoyed learning from GEM Sara Lee about serving students with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia!

Do you have your copy of "Learner Feedback for Language Growth" yet? We're doing a book study this semester on it, and are looking forward to chatting with y'all about what we learn! How can we make feedback goal-oriented, timely, and effective? Let's find out! www.ipgbook.com/learner-feed...

Have you listened to our latest episode about comprehension-forward grammar instruction? What techniques do you know to accomplish any grammar goals? Take a listen to episode 42! slayyypod.com/p/comprehens...

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We’re back! Welcome to our 5th season/semester of SLAyyy, where we break down language acquisition research for classroom use. Our 1st episode of this season asks: what is the role of AI in language learning? Ben & Bill discuss an article and share their perspectives: slayyypod.com/p/ep-41-slay...

Ep. 41: SLAyyy The Role of AI in Language Education

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Ben and Bill just recorded the first episode of season 5 (!) - all about Ben's favorite topic: AI. There may have been some ranting, allegedly. The episode will be out on Tuesday, August 4th. We're excited to engage with everyone in the new school year! Hope you've been SLAyyying the summer!

Come chat with us tonight @ 8PM Eastern at slayyypod.com/chat or on the Substack App! #LangChat

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The SLAyyy Field Guide is LIVE!

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Big welcome to @stacywitkowski.bsky.social who will be joining the SLAyyy team to help us build community and help facilitate live chats! Swing by and say hello! Https://slayyypod.com/chat #langchat

Come test it out and introduce yourself! Https://slayyypod.com/chat You can even reply in a thread and make a new thread! It’s really like a little version of good Twitter (especially on the app) #langchat

Denise Wagstaff@mmewagstaff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#langchat

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We missed #Langchat, so here’s what we’re gonna do about it

Back in the Twitter days before it was called X there was a great community of language teachers that would get together nearly every Thursday night and just chat with one another about different conc...

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The more I read about students using AI to cheat because the grade is valuable to them but the learning is not, the more I think we need to rethink grading. I’m reading Learner Feedback for Language Growth this summer and getting ready to discuss it with my friends at @slayyypod.com

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, it's (part of) *why* students use AI. 🧵

"you used the wrong subjunctive trigger" is feedback. it's also a vocabulary quiz your student didn't sign up for. new post: naming the function instead of the grammar in micro-feedback. same correction, no decoding tax. comes with my actual Friday whiteboard routine. Link below!

Name the function, not the grammar

Micro-Feedback in the Language Classroom

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Hey remember when we recorded an episode 40 that was full of end-of-semester reflections...at the beginning of May? Ben did, eventually! Here's our year-end wrap-up to slay into the summer... rss.com/podcasts/sla...

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SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone WebsiteGaslightKeeping Up with GradingPlanning AheadClass Size!Don’t RushGatekeepTPR, Circumlocution, and Synonym StackingBrain Breaks - Heads or Tails...

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New blog post! Posting learning objectives always felt like an evaluation ritual rather than something useful. This week, I wrote about the difference between objectives written about students and objectives written for them, and why that distinction matters for self-regulated learning. #langchat

New long post coming Thursday over at slayyypod.substack.com What if writing objectives on the board isn’t actually a waste of time? Maybe we were just never given the proper tools to make the objectives meaningful for students?

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Gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss language teaching with Bill Langley-Bostick and Ben Fisher-Rodriguez! Click to read "SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone!", by Bill Langley-Bostick, a Sub...

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AP season makes the end of the spring semester at my school challenging, as I’m sure it does at many schools.

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Superhéroes y la identidad cultural - Unit 1, Spanish 4What do superheroes tell us about the cultures that create them? That's the question driving this 15-day Spanish 4 unit - and it turns out studen...

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New blog post! This is the first in a series on Structured input #langchat slayyypod.com/slayyy-blog/...

FREE I’ve got a lot more of these units planned, but let me know what helps, what would be more helpful, etc before I dive too far in. But I made this for my students, fully editable so you can adapt it to yours! #langchat slayyypod.com/store

FREE I’ve got a lot more of these units planned, but let me know what helps, what would be more helpful, etc before I dive too far in. But I made this for my students, fully editable so you can adapt it to yours! #langchat slayyypod.com/store

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Research Note Catcher — SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

Stop letting research articles collect dust. This 3-page note-catcher walks you through the Gaslight-Gatekeep-Girlboss framework: a practical system for turning SLA research into classroom action.

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Más que palabras: An Idiom Guessing Game - La convivencia con animales — SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

A 4-corners/discussion game about idioms related to animals!

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Más que palabras: An Idiom Guessing Game - La convivencia con animales — SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

A 4-corners/discussion game about idioms related to animals!

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@slayyypod.com @stacywitkowski.bsky.social ACTFL has a free webinar (for members) "Leading the Grammar Revolution: Shifting Minds and Methods" with Catherine Ritz and Michael Travers! my.actfl.org/user/Event_D...

Also a shout-out for Liam Printer's Motivated Classroom podcast. Not super heavy on research - mainly CI and Deci and Ryan - but strong on the classroom.

On that topic - my links site to research articles informedlanguagteacher.com Also non-US books relating research to practice, eg our The Language Teacher Toolkit & blogs such as G. Conti's. I know of no better 'research to practice' blog. Agreed - most teachers are not very switched on by research.

What the what? A SLAyyy blog! This blog is meant to serve as an area to share some of the best Gaslight-Gatekeep-Girlbossing we have come across. To kick things off, Bill shares how he goes about reading articles and putting them into use. PLUS a free research-reading note catcher! #langchat

Girl, what are you doing? You've got a podcast episode to listen to!! Our new episode with the excellent Timothy Chávez is out, where we talk about peer-to-peer interaction and input! Is it really "garbage"? Hear what we (and some research) have to say! rss.com/podcasts/sla...

Ep. 36: SLAyyy Pair and Group Work with Timothy Chávez | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

GaslightLack of Communicative PurposeBad Input! Bad!Need for ScaffoldingWe Teach Much More Than LanguageGatekeep - Sadri, E. & Tahririan, M.H.. (2018). Teacher-assisted vs. peer-assisted performa...

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Always happy to see shoutouts - here’s WA Language Teacher of the Year Mary Hooker calling out SLAyyy in her keynote address about inspiration at the WAFLT Spring Regional Conference!

Are you taking brain breaks with your students? You might want to start! Check out the latest episode of the pod for tips on how to increase student test and quiz performance: rss.com/podcasts/sla...

Ep. 33 SLAyyy Micro-Breaks for Student Attention | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone WebsiteGaslightTalking Yourself Out of ThemBrain Breaks vs. GamesFocus vs. EnergizePerception of Brain BreaksGatekeep Sharpe, B. T., Trotter, M. G., &a...

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