Artists:

Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley

Main Points

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

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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”

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

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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)

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

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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