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SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

By: Ben Fisher-Rodriguez Bill Langley-Bostick
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Join Ben (he/him), and Bill (he/him) as they Gaslight (reflect), Gatekeep (read research), and Girlboss (share successes) language teaching!

© 2026 SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone
Language Learning
Episodes
  • Ep. 47: SLAyyy Culturally Responsive Participation
    27 Oct 2026

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    Gaslight

    When Interest Wanes

    Skills of Interculturality

    Talk About Real Stuff!

    Gatekeep - Chen, Dianbing & Yang, Xinxiao. (2017). Improving Active Classroom Participation of ESL Students: Applying Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies. Theory and Practice in Language Studies. 7. 79. 10.17507/tpls.0701.10.

    Grammar and Vocab Doesn’t Work, Volume 1,000,000

    Knowing and Being Known

    Get PD on This!

    Girlboss

    PQA Everything

    Bill Forgot About The World Series

    Learning One’s Own Cultural Background

    References

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Book Study: Learner Feedback for Language Growth by Nickel, Strauss, and Budke

    Ben’s Blog Post About Intercultural Communicative Competence

    The Motivated Classroom Podcast

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    45 min
  • Ep. 46: SLAyyy Mid-Semester Check-In
    13 Oct 2026

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    Gaslight

    Class Size

    Planning Ahead - Less is More!

    Gatekeep -

    Chunking! TPR!

    Comprehensible Definitions

    The Survey Quiz Game

    Girlboss

    Feedback Loops

    Going Slow!

    References

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Book Study: Learner Feedback for Language Growth by Nickel, Strauss, and Budke

    What If Input Is Enough? by Beniko Mason

    Wir sind Curriculum

    The Survey Quiz Game - blog post by Ben

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    42 min
  • Ep. 45: SLAyyy Word Chunks
    29 Sep 2026

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    Gaslight

    Teaching Words Individually

    SLOW

    Gatekeep - Wang, S. Y., & Christiansen, M. H. (2024). Chunking in the second language: Implications for language learning and teaching. Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 44, 84-106.

    The Processing Bottleneck + Chunk and Pass

    L1 + L2 Language Acquisition

    Girlboss

    ENHANCED CHUNKING SKILLS

    Revising the Vocab List

    Auditory, then Reading

    Chat Mats and Sentence Builders

    References

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Book Study: Learner Feedback for Language Growth by Nickel, Strauss, and Budke

    Episode 18: SLAyyy Multiword Sequences

    TextActivities

    Sentence Builders

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    44 min
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