Please enjoy this minimally edited crossover episode with one of our favorite podcasts, Conversations About Language Teaching! Listen in as we discuss how best to help others understand fundamental SLA findings, and what those might be...!

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SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

Gaslight

Please Don’t Burn Yourself Out!

Know Your Context

Gatekeep - Wadas, M., Goetze, J., & Jackson, C. (2024). Going above and beyond: Motivations of L2 German learners to (dis)continue language study. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 57, 87–102.

Girlboss

Meditating on the Ideal Self

Don’t Waste Your Own Time!

Love Culture, and Develop a Growth Mindset

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

CI Reboot - fully online conference for CCLT - use affiliate code SLAYY2026

Ben’s Blog Post About Program Growth

Mike Peto - Las maravillas

The German Club Ideas List

Artists:

Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley

Main Points

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

Gaslight

Strategies Are Not Top of Mind

How to Balance Test Prep and Real World Use

Target Language Usage vs. L1 Talk About Metacognition

Gatekeep - Sarafianou, Anna & Gavriilidou, Zoe. (2015). The effect of strategy-based instruction on strategy use by upper-secondary Greek students of EFL. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching. 12. 21-34.

Types of Strategies

Teaching Strategies → Knowing Strategies!

But What Do the Strategies…Do?

Girlboss

Teaching the Use of Logical Connectors (and Complete Sentences)

Breaking Words Down

Use Up Those Commercial Breaks!

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

CI Reboot - fully online conference for CCLT - use affiliate code SLAYY2026

AnneMarie Chase - 20 Questions

Bryce Hedstrom - Reading Bookmark