• Ep. 30: SLAyyy First Semester Wrap-Up
    Dec 2 2025

    Gaslight

    The Class That Just Won’t Talk

    Planning and Grading Struggle Bus

    Accountable Reading

    Explicitly Talking About Why We Do What We Do

    Gatekeep

    Book Study Takeaways

    Synonym Stacking

    Pronunciation Fun

    Girlboss

    Having a Unit Framework Slays!

    Kicking Butt and Taking Names

    References

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    The Partner Speaking / Q+A Game

    Bill’s Unit Planning Framework

    Independent Textivities from the Comprehensible Classroom

    Bill’s Post for the Educational Knowledge Network: Podcasts as Tools for Knowledge Brokers: How We’re Working to Make Evidence Accessible, Relevant, and Actionable

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    51 mins
  • Ep. 29: SLAyyy "Teaching Grammar for Proficiency" Book Study with Stacy Witkowski
    Nov 18 2025

    SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

    Gaslight

    Grammar as a Concept

    Do ACTFL levels describe language development?

    Use of the L2 in Grammar Explanations

    Balancing Authentic/Found Resources and Created Resources

    Gatekeep - Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Teaching Grammar? Start with Input!

    Referential and Affective Tasks in Structured Input

    Bill Talks about SI and Eats It Up

    Performance and Proficiency

    Girlboss

    Form-Focused Feedback

    Structured Input 2: Electric Boogaloo

    Rethinking Our Relationship to Grammar

    References

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Stacy’s BlueSky Account

    Language Learner Literature Advisory Board - reviews of readers for issues of identity/bias

    Stacy’s Session at ACTFL 2025: Friday, 4:30pm, Room 213

    Ben’s SideBar at ACTFL 2025: Saturday, 11-11:45am

    Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom by Henshaw and Hawkins

    Timothy Chavez’ Instagram Account - language teaching research and practice

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Ep. 28: SLAyyy Interaction Hypothesis
    Nov 4 2025

    Artists:

    Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley

    Main Points

    SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

    Gaslight

    Parking on New Vocabulary

    Allowing for Negotiating Meaning

    Talking Ourselves Out of Using the TL

    Gatekeep - Adu, Michael & Abunya, Levina & Owusu, Edward & Budu, Gifty. (2025). THE IMPACT OF INTERACTION ON SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LISTENING. 31-42.

    Input + Interaction

    Quantity + Redundancy + Complexity

    Girlboss

    Teach to the Eyes (Despite the “Gen Z Stare”)

    Teaching Students How to React

    Synonym Stacking

    MODEL EVERYTHING

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Bill’s Rules

    Ben’s TL Usage Reflection

    Dr. Liam Printer and The Motivated Classroom Podcast

    Carrie Toth’s “Discussion Thursdays”

    Krashen and Mason: “Comprehension-Aiding Supplementation”

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    37 mins
  • Ep. 27: SLAyyy Creating Compelling Content with Señor Wooly
    Oct 21 2025

    Gaslight

    What is it that we want to / have to teach?

    There Is No Faking a Storyteller’s Intention

    “One Day, You Will Have a Real Conversation”

    Gatekeep - Jim Wooldridge

    What does the life of a kid look like?

    The Novelty Disappears - What is the Driving Reason?

    Start With Your Problem and Communicative Purpose

    Girlboss

    Know Your Context and Know Your Students

    Bring Diverse Stories to the Classroom

    Tell Your Stories, Explore How to Make Other Stories Work

    Does the repetition “teach the structure,” or serve the story?

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Woology Facebook Group

    Conversations About Language Teaching Podcast

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Ep. 26: SLAyyy Differentiated Instruction
    Oct 7 2025

    SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

    Gaslight

    Challenge and Accommodation

    The Neverending Rubric

    Time Investment

    Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Gatekeep - Tajik, O., Noor, S. & Golzar, J. Investigating differentiated instruction and the contributing factors to cater EFL students’ needs at the collegial level. Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ. 9, 74 (2024).

    Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

    Content, Process, Product, Learning Environment

    Girlboss

    Diverse Tips for Differentiating!

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Feedback Options (via Meredith White)

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    41 mins
  • Ep. 25: SLAyyy Pronunciation Pedagogy
    Sep 23 2025

    SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

    Gaslight

    Everything Will Work Out in the End (Maybe?)

    The Critical Period

    Relationship to One’s Own Accent

    Gatekeep - Vijay A Ramjattan, Imagining an anti-racist pronunciation pedagogy, ELT Journal, Volume 78, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 318–325

    Webinar on the Same Topic

    Refusal - Relational - Activist

    Girlboss

    Parking on the Language to Enjoy It!

    How do we frame pronunciation to our students and colleagues?

    Butter Ladder

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Bill’s Article About Podcasts as Means of Knowledge Brokering

    Growing with Proficiency: The Podcast by Claudia Elliott

    Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit

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    58 mins
  • Ep. 24: SLAyyy Shared Reading with Storybooks
    Sep 9 2025

    SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

    Gaslight

    Missing Out on Kindergarten Day

    Kids Books Are For the Adults

    Bored During Shared Reading

    Gatekeep -

    Reading Children’s Books Rule

    How many repetitions do they need?

    Use of L1 to Get Back to the L2

    Program Length, Abstraction, Home Language

    Girlboss

    Park and Pause

    Comprehension-Based Reader Storybooks

    Picture Talk

    Story Listening

    Justice for Kindergarten Day

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    El último árbol - Margarita Perez Garcia

    No somos amigos - Señor Wooly

    Story Listening and Guided Self-Selected Reading

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    41 mins
  • Ep. 23: SLAyyy AI in Language Learning
    Aug 26 2025

    Gaslight

    New Technology! Goals?

    Overreliance

    Aligning Classroom with Values

    Gatekeep - Ivenz, P., & Polakova, P. (2024). Gen Z students and their perceptions of technology in the process of second language acquisition based on the language proficiency level. Arab World English Journal, 15(3), 3-17.

    Girlboss

    Nuanced Discussion with Students

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Deepl Write

    The Emerging Problem of “AI Psychosis” - Psychology Today

    What Are AI Hallucinations? - IBM

    New Study Suggests Using AI Made Doctors Less Skilled at Spotting Cancer - TIME

    Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News

    America’s Digital Demand Threatens Black Communities with More Pollution - Capital B News

    Bias in AI - Chapman University

    AI teacher tools display racial bias when generating student behavior plans, study finds - Chalkbeat

    SchoolAI

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    47 mins