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Bill Langley
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Ben and I just finished recording the first episode of the new Season of SLAyyy! So check out the new episode on Monday!

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SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone
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July 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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My biggest ask for PD this year is that everything we do makes me a better teacher or a better member of our school community. #langchat #edchat #edusky
July 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Count your days, Grammarly. Telling me my tone sounds off because I sound "confident" >.>
Grammarly "tone" detector. Says the tone of curious is on brand, but that the tones of directness and confidence are "off brand".
July 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A question for #psycholinguistics or #neurolinguistics folks: in therapy, EMDR or bilateral stimulation helps to process past events/trauma by, I think, activating both brain hemispheres. Sometimes it's done through auditory means. A beat moves from the left ear to the right ear. #langsky
July 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We need to make sure language is accessible to all students in our class, that it is engaging enough for most, that we offer a variety of ways for Ss to demonstrate learning, and make sure that we regularly audit our materials for bias #LangChat
Universal Design for Learning and Comprehension-Based Teaching
I used to think teaching with comprehensible input (CI) was inherently equitable. I'd argue, "it's the only thing we KNOW students need to acquire language". I still think that's true. And while CI is still the first thing I consider when planning for student language acquisition, I have reflected and learned a lot about what it means to be equitable in a world language classroom.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#LangChat Essential questions, IMO, help students see why what we learn is important. I try to write them in such a way that Ss can leave class and *know* what they think about a particular topic.

So now I'm thinking about what will a S's answer to an EQ tell ME about the student.
July 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A possible flow chart to help with this #langchat #langsky
• Education General, broad area of interest • Consumer education Narrower topic of interest within broader area • Credit management • Record keeping and budgeting • Managing financial indebtedness Issues and Problems within topic (researcher is familiar with these) • People are experiencing insolvency because consumer education curricula are inadequately addressing the aforementioned issues. Research Problem lof interest to researcher, reflecting gap in the literature) Research Questions posed by researcher How ho why remain solven i aintenach consumer pout how to remain solvent li. • The purpose of this study is to examine consumer education curricula to determine why they and their implementation cannot accommodate the pressing issues of indebtedness, leading to consumer insolvency. Research Statement what this particular study will address Research Objectives Find and examine several Canadian consumer education curricula t etermine the extent of their coverage of these issues • Tha acratempatin te implanaten odine curcula te. reaching consumers with key information, skills, attitudes, and processes). Example 6.2 Topic, issue, research problem, and question Nuclear waste is one topic within the Page 11 of 52 Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Speaking of moving from topic to something more, I think I’ve been viewing essential questions like developing a research question. #langchat
Graphic showing progression from topic to research question
June 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Good reminder for me as a grad student, AND a good perspective to adapt and teach to students. #langchat #teachers
First and foremost, allow yourself enough time to write and rewrite it. This is not a one-all-nighter assignment. You might have something done to turn in by the deadline if you do this, but chances are pretty good that you'll have done all that work without really gaining much understanding, or making much progress on your final paper, as a result. And that defeats the purpose of having you write the literature review early on: The whole point of making you write a literature review prior to turning in your final paper is to help you make progress on that final paper. Sometimes—rarely—that progress is the words you wrote in that first submitted literature review. More often, it's the ideas you develop during that drafting process that help the most.
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#langchat free intermediate Spanish unit on superheroes, identity and culture. How do superheroes and comics reflect the communities they come from?

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June 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#langchat what are your best tips for creating Essential Questions for a unit?
June 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Check out my free “pets” unit at languageley.com/unit-plans #langchat
Designing an Engaging Unit on Pets and Responsibility
In this video, I share a unit I've been developing focused on pets and responsible pet ownership, which I believe can be adapted for different levels, particularly level 3 and 4. I outline various act...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I feel like there are more people on Bsky I wanna follow and interact with, but tbh the app has a lot of moving parts and it’s overwhelming. How do yall have the app configured to make it easier to interact? And who’s got great Ed and lang Ed feeds they can share?
June 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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#LangChat I love being able to streamline lesson/unit planning. Here is a framework I've been developing, mostly I just needed to get the ideas on paper and out of my brain. Hope something can be useful here :)
A Unit Planning Framework for a Content-Based CI Unit
Through a lot of trial, error, and student feedback, I think I have found the right combination of activities and pacing for my level 4 class. Hopefully, something that worked for me will work for you, as well. If you have a hard time wrapping your head around what a comprehension-based curriculum looks like in upper levels like I did, I highly suggest taking a look at both…
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June 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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One of the things I tried this year that I’m absolutely keeping next year is having students create infographics to demonstrate comprehension #langchat
May 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#LangChat I wanted to reflect on my EOY book report project. Have you done anything similar? How was your experience?
The name of the book about which this book report is about is…
Anyone a fan of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown? I played Linus in a couple of Charlie Brown stage shows, and directed YaGMCB once too! The Book Report scene is still one of my favorite scenes. We just finished our Semester Finals, which this year (and last year) took the form of an End of Year Self-Selected Book Project.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Brain dump!
In spn1, our final unit is just storytelling (not asking), and a bunch of reading. Stories are short, but have "richer" vocab. It's not as interactive as I'd like, BUT I am seeing some vocab growth. I've used AI to help me ensure that any new vocab is recycled #LangChat
May 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Canva released new features so I had to go ahead and check them out! A lot of cool potential here, and now that they've got Sheets... I may be moving away from google workspace completely. Now if only they made it easier to share lesson plans/activities outside of Canva... #LangChat #TEachers #Canva
May 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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#SLAyyy #LangChat
Gaslight 🔥 Word Lists Aren’t Always “Helpful” Not All Chunks Are Created Equal My llamo = My Name Is? (Mis-learned Chunks) Translation ≠ Meaning Cognitive Load and Fluent Vibes Gatekeep 🔐 Takizawa, K., & Suzuki, S. (2025). The role of multiword sequences in fluent speech: The case of listener-based judgment in L2 argumentative speech. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263125000051 Girlboss 👑 Use of Sentence Builders + Chat Mats Teach Rejoinders, Repair Phrases, & Filler Chunks Teach Idiomatic Expressions as expressions, not as puzzles Passwords = Chunk Rehearsal Chime in! 🛎️ How do you teach phrases that “just go together”?
April 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Recently got reminded about calling imperfect tense "interruptible actions" so that'll be a pop-up I use and reuse. #langchat
April 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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ISO Language teachers for gender justice

Are you a language teacher who wants to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make free resources to support the teaching and learning of nonbinary ways of doing languages other than English?

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Language teachers: Want free materials that are trans-affirming & gender-just? Join an online professional community to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make them! I'm looking for teachers of languages other than English who would like to participate in a online professional community April 1-May 6 focused on deepening our understandings of gender-just language pedagogies and collaboratively creating open educational resources in the languages we teach, with support from researchers in trans applied linguistics and trans/nonbinary language experts. There is no cost to participate and 20 educators who take part in the learning community, create 1 or more OER to share, and take an exit survey will receive $100. Do you qualify? 1. Do you teach a language other than English (at any level, K-16)? 2. Do you have an interest in trans-affirming, gender-just language education? 3. Would you like to make professional connections with other language teachers and community experts? 4. Would you like to co-create open educational resources (OERs) including trans and nonbinary ways of doing language? April 1-May 6, 2025. Estimated 10-15 hours. Flexible scheduling. Free/$100: 20 educators who take part in the free learning community, create 1+ OER to share, & take an exit survey will receive $100. Fill out a short interest form or ask questions: https://bit.ly/GenderJustPLONS
February 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Instead of calling it “circling,” I now tell Ss I’m asking a “transparent question”. I tell them "We already know the answer to Transparent Qs, but I want to make sure we hear these new words over and over". #Langchat
April 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Today in Spanish 4, we played bingo while listening to a podcast.

I selected a bunch of short sentences, put them in L1, and as we listened to the pod to “cover” a square, Ss had to copy the L2 that they heard. It was fun, or at the very least Ss seemed to actually listen haha #Langchat
April 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I maintain this links site for language teachers interested in reading about research. It also includes videos and a podcast or two. www.informedlanguageteacher.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Updated link, make copies of documents: drive.google.com/drive/folder... #LangChat
April 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM