Notes from the Cornell LRC: Problem-Based Learning, Distance Classrooms, and a Podcast Episode!

A couple weeks ago, I got to visit Cornell University Language Resource Center in Ithaca, New York to share about my current work on a problem-based model for language instruction. The people I got to talk to were smart, fun, and deeply invested in languages, especially the LRC staff led by Director Angelika Kraemer, And...

Short-Form Publications on Language Teaching: Where to Find Opportunities

Do you have a good idea that doesn't quite fit into the mold of a traditional research article? If you are researching and writing about language teaching and applied linguistics, you have a range of things you will write during your career to convey your ideas to your peers. Sometimes you collect data and write...

Recent Publication Alert! “Peer Observation of Teaching” Hispania article

I have had quite a few opportunities to collaborate with Maris Hawkins over the years, first as part of the We Teach Languages podcast and newsletter, and most recently on a peer observation project that we turned into a publication in the June issue of Hispania. If you have been thinking about or working on...

Public Scholarship Projects in Languages

I produce the podcast We Teach Languages as a form of public scholarship that grew out of my research and my teaching on second language acquisition and language teaching methods. In addition to my podcast project, I am also a huge fan of open-access and public scholarship in general, and have collected examples of other...