Episode 40: Heritage Language Learners

Send us Fan MailThank you to our guest, Dan Call, who joined us for this episode! Information about Dan's award as Pacific Northwest Regional Teacher of the Year: https://www.actfl.org/career-development/actfl-awards/teacher-of-the-year-program/hall-of-fame-2026/dan-callDan's LinkedIn Profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-call-377256179Show notes: Funds of knowledge is a term initially created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (information here: https://www.clrn.org/how-to-use-funds-of-knowledge-in-the-classroom/) Seeing and drawing upon students' funds of knowledge is part of  Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. More information here: https://www.clrn.org/what-is-culturally-responsive-pedagogy/Tara Yosso and community cultural wealth: https://www.tarajyossophd.com/aboutOfelia García and translanguaging -- a nice starting place is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1CcrRrck0Dr. García is a widely cited scholar. Her Google Scholar profile is here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_HJgviUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sraIntro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo Support the showConversations about Language TeachingDiane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD"Conversations about Language Teaching" is a podcast of unscripted discussions of language teaching, drawing on both research and classroom & online language teaching. If you like thinking deeply about issues of classroom language teaching and how those relate to research and theory, this podcast might be for you.Reed & Diane, the hosts, base our knowledge of language teaching on research we've read & done, theoretical views of language acquisition, our experiences as language teachers and learners, and our observations of language teaching in the US and elsewhere. We like to help build bridges among teachers and researchers and view ourselves as part of both communities. We collaborate on projects & like talking about language teaching & learning, and decided to have some of those conversations in a podcast format. Here it is!More about Diane: https://sites.google.com/view/dianen/homeMore about Reed: http://www.reedriggs.comWatch on YouTube where episodes are captioned:https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsaboutLanguageWe welcome support for the podcasting costs. See "Support" here: https://conversationsaboutlanguage.buzzsprout.com/2325378/supporters/new