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Mar 1, 2019 52 min

Episode1: How Personalities Influence Second Language Acquisition

from Foreign Language Pedagogy Podcast Hosted by TeachRussian

We interview our first guest, Betty Lou Leaver (PhD, Pushkin Institute), former Provost of the Defense Language Institute who is now working as the Executive editor of MSI Press and as an international educational consultant. Tune in as the podcast host Dr. Natalie McCauley and her guest discuss the evolution of foreign language education, task-based and content-based instruction, teaching "the whole class" and making sure that students of all personality types and learning styles feel comfortable and get the most of their classroom experience. Betty Lou also shares with our listeners her very special 20-minute introduction into Russian alphabet.

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