Notes from SOLPHE 2021

I was invited to speak at the Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education (SOLPE) which took place this year on Oct 1-2. The attendees are primarily language program directors and instructors of second and heritage languages in higher education, and the sessions included both concurrent and plenary-style talks on a range of topics such……

Notes from AATSP 2021 in Atlanta, GA: Experiential Learning Everyday

If you were in Atlanta to hear my AATSP presentation about how the experiential learning cycle can provide a useful framework for lesson planning in the language classroom, hopefully you found this blog post by way of follow up! Whether you made it to the presentation or not, a few of the key slides from……

Notes for Languages Week Scotland 2021

I had the amazing opportunity to talk to language teachers in Scotland about critical and community-oriented approaches in the language classroom. I had so much I wanted to share that I couldn’t possibly fit it all into a 25 minute presentation. So, this blog post is meant to be an expansion of that presentation with……

Current Events in the Language Classroom

What is our obligation as teachers, even more specifically as language teachers, to bring current events into our classrooms? Over the last few weeks, my kids and I have been on holiday break. During that time, we experienced among other things 1) an ongoing but increasingly dangerous pandemic that has kept us confined to our……