Agents Florencia Henshaw and Maris Hawkins (Bridging SLA Theory and Practice)
Lesson: Impossible - An Exploration of Educational Innovation
English - October 09, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to connect Second Language Acquisition theories with practical classroom applications. The special agents assigned to help you with this task are Florencia Henshaw and Maris Hawkins, authors of "Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom".
In our conversation we discuss:
1️⃣ Some SLA theories that refuse to die
2️⃣ Their favorite activities to use
3️⃣ The importance of both content and purpose
Click here for links and resources mentioned in the episode or more information about the podcast. Click here for Lesson: Impossible’s language teaching blog.
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Ep. 27: Agent Laurent Porosoff (Meaningful Curriculum)
Ep. 72: Agent Julia Spiegelman (Challenging Language Textbooks)