All Episodes

Episode 75 - The Farewell Show (but not goodbye)

Episode 74- Why is Vocabulary So Important?

Episode 73 - The Atlas Complex

Episode 72 - Focus on Form and Input Enhancement

Episode 71 - Task-Oriented Instruction

Episode 70 - Input in the Classroom

Episode 69 - Learner-Internal Constraints

Episode 68 - Language as Subject Matter

Episode 67 - Questions from Future Educators

Episode 66 - The Context of Communication

Episode 65 - Does Instruction Speed-up Acquisition?

Episode 64 - The Role of Parsing

Episode 63 - Input Processing

Episode 62 - What is Blocking?

Episiode 61 - Noticing and Acquisition

Episode 60 - What is the Goal of Language Instruction?

Episode 59 - Is Anything Missing in Language Teacher Education?

Episode 58 - Vocabulary and Grammar Acquisition

Episode 57 -Special Episode with Blaine Ray!

Episode 56 - What is Fluency?

Episode 55 - Bootstrapping

Live from OFLA

Episode 53 - All About Learners' Output

Episode 52 - Is Fossilization Real?

Episode 51 - The Role of Individual Differences

Episode 50 - Alternatives to Universal Grammar

Episode 49 - All About Universal Grammar

Episode 48 - What is Input Processing?

Episode 47 - Differences Between L1 & L2 Acquisition

Episode 46 - How Different is L2 Acquisition from L1 Acquisition?

Episode 45 - What's the Role of Speaking?

Episode 44 - The Nature of Paradigms

Episode 43 - Top Myths About Language Acquisition and Language Teaching

Episode 42 - Tasks and Communication in the Classroom

Episode 41- The Role of Conscious Knowledge in SLA

Live From ACTFL 2016!

Live from MIWLA: Educating our Administrators

Episode 38 - Output and its Role in Acquisition

Episode 37 - Are L1 and L2 Acquisition Different?

Episode 36 - Is Input Enough? What About Interaction?

Episode 35 - What are Appropriate Goals for Language Instruction?

Episode 34 - Ask Us Anything!

Friday Outtakes Ep. 1: What really happens before the show

Episode 33 - Is Testing Necessary?

Episode 32 - When is it Appropriate to Use the L1 in the Classroom?

Episode 31 - Communicative Language Teaching: Misunderstood and misapplied

Episode 30 - Teaching without textbooks

Episode 29 - Ask Us Anything!

Episode 28 - Season 2 Premiere!

Episode 27 - Live from CALICO

Episdode 26 - Ask Us Anything!

Episode 25 - Principle 6: Focus on Form

Episode 24 - Principle 5: The Nature of Tasks

Episode 23 - Principle 4: Instructors as Input Providers

Episode 22 - Ask Us Anything!

Episode 21 - Principle 3: Constraints on Acquisition

Episode 20 - Principle 2: The Nature of Communication

Episode 19 - Principle 1: The Nature of Language

Episode 18 - Ask Us Anything!

Episode 17 - Can Language Learners Become Native-Like?

Episode 16 - What is the Role of Feedback in Language Acquisition and Teaching?

Episode 15 - Are Some Languages Harder to Learn than Others?

Episode 14: There's No Such Thing Anymore as "Methods."

Episode 13 - What Should Teacher Education Be About?

Episode 12 - Are Vocabulary and Grammar Learned Differently?

Episode 11 - With Alison Mackey: What's the Relationship Between SLA Research and Language Teaching?

Episode 10 - Are There 'Rules' to be Learned?

Episode 9 - Is It Our Job to Motivate Students?

Episode 8 - What Does Output Do for Acquisition?

Episode 7 - There Is No Such Thing as "Errors"

Episode 6 - Live from ACTFL with guest Stephen Krashen

Episode 5 - Does Explicit Language Teaching Do Anything?

Episode 4 - Should We Get Rid of Grades for Language Learning?

Episode 3 - Textbook: Friend or foe?

Episode 2 - Whatever Happened to Comprehensible Input? (Live from MIWLA)

Episode 1 - The State of Language Teaching