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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

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Ben’s Blog Post About Intercultural Communicative Competence

The Motivated Classroom Podcast

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Class Size

Planning Ahead - Less is More!

Gatekeep -

Chunking! TPR!

Comprehensible Definitions

The Survey Quiz Game

Girlboss

Feedback Loops

Going Slow!

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What If Input Is Enough? by Beniko Mason

Wir sind Curriculum

The Survey Quiz Game - blog post by Ben

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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

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Episode 18: SLAyyy Multiword Sequences

TextActivities

Sentence Builders

Notes

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It’ll All Work Out in the End! …Right?

How Much Should We Emphasize Any Given Aspect of a Language?

The Need for Massive Aural Input

How to Reread Texts Many Times

Gatekeep - Paige, D. D. (2011). 16 Minutes of “Eyes-on-Text” Can Make a Difference: Whole-Class Choral Reading as an Adolescent Fluency Strategy. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 51 (1).

Repeated Readings Help!

More Efficient Than…

Student and Teacher Perceptions

Girlboss

Control the Game

Interruption

Table Tennis Reading

Embedded Readings, Revisited

Write and Discuss

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TPRS with Chinese Characteristics by Terry Waltz

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“Ok, Just Be a Leader Now!”

Failing to Identify Strengths

Lack of Definitions and Models

Walking the Line Between Guidance and Control

Gatekeep - Nathan Campbell, 2026 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year

Progressive Leadership System

Building Experience and Perspective

Modeling Qualities of a Strong Leader

Girlboss

When to Guide, When to Let Go

Clear Expectations

The Secret of the Shared Drive

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Ben’s German Club Ideas List

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Are Students Made to Attend to Meaning?

Treating Language Like Other Subjects

Gatekeep - Gonzalez Bueno, Manuela. “S-PACE for Teaching L2 Grammar: Adding Structure to the PACE Model.” Applied Language Learning, vol. 31, no. 1 & 2, 2021, pp. 29–49.

Girlboss

Use Low Cognitive Load Sentences to Focus Attention

Using Student-Friendly Grammar Language

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Bethanie Drew’s Blog

Lightbown: 10 Generalizations

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Is AI for Students or for Teachers?

The Humanity in Teaching

You Can’t AI Your Way to Communicative Competence

Gatekeep - Çelik, Ö. (2025). Evolution of foreign language education in the age of AI. ELT Research Journal, 14(1), 61-77.

Teachers as Filters of Knowledge and Designers of Learning Processes

Ben Rants, Extensively

Girlboss

How to Make the Classroom a Safe, Inclusive Learning Environment

Productivity Hacking - with the Teacher’s Competence

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Keeping Up with Grading

Planning Ahead

Class Size!

Don’t Rush

Gatekeep

TPR, Circumlocution, and Synonym Stacking

Brain Breaks - Heads or Tails?

Girlboss

Classroom Management

Having Just a Lil’ Structure

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

Next Semester’s Book Study: Learner Feedback for Language Growth by Nickel, Strauss, and Budke

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