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In this episode, Min Paing Moe offers practical ways to modify listening instruction when technology, audio, and materials are limited. In specific, he shares the LTRS (listen, talk, recall, swap) strategy for listening practice in low-resource contexts. He expands on each component and provides ideas for how to modify language teaching resources to successfully incorporate listening in any teaching environment.

Resources:

(1) Practical and user-friendly digital tools for ELT teachers: https://padlet.com/minpaingmoe/elt-teacher-community-resources-fs1snhinuac000vq (feel free to add more)

(2) Teaching in low resource contexts webinar: https://youtu.be/8nGUoMn7_ro?si=7HQWeCmK11wodnTF (In this webinar, I focused on utilizing differentiated instruction in low resource classrooms.)

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In this episode of The Language Educators' Exchange, hosts Dr. Aniqa Shah and Dr. Sarah Albrecht welcome Dr. Mandy Stewart, professor at Texas Woman’s University and author of The Multilingual ELA Classroom (NCTE). Dr. Stewart shares the HEART approach to teaching for biliteracy—strategies that empower teachers to support multilingual learners even when they do not speak students’ home languages. Focusing on the “T” in HEART (teacher-created mentor texts), she offers concrete classroom examples from the U.S. and Poland that highlight how identity-affirming, multimodal mentor texts foster engagement, belonging, and biliteracy development for immigrant and refugee students. Listeners will leave with practical ideas, research-based insights, and links to open-access resources they can immediately apply in their own classrooms.

Resources:

Open Access Journal Articles that show teacher mentor texts for language learning.

• In Poland-And this gives a full explanation of the HEART approach to teaching for biliteracy
• In the US
• Forthcoming book with NCTE that shows teacher mentor texts PreK-12

Stewart, M.A. & & Abbasher, D. (2024). Supporting biliteracy in the English language arts through family partnerships: Cases of early childhood teachers and their Arabic- and Russian-speaking students. Research in the Teaching of English, 59(1), 19-46. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.58680/rte202459119

Stewart, M.A., & Genova, H. (2020). But does this work with English learners? A guide for English Language Arts teachers grades 6-12. Corwin.

Flint, P., Dollar, T. & Stewart, M.A. (2019). Hurdling over language barriers: Building relationships with adolescent newcomers through literacy advancement. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 62(5), 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.927

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In this episode, classroom teacher and teacher educator Colleen Hill shares how she helps students develop vocabulary across all content areas through the four-square template.

Episode notes:

Four-box Strategy Steps by Colleen Hill