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How to Teach a Language

How to Teach a Language

By Joe E Zarate

Thank you for considering listening to our podcast, How to Teach a Language: A Workshop for One-on-One Language Teachers Podcast. This a podcast for those of you who teach a language one on one, in person, or using one of those platforms that enable you to teach online. In this podcast, I am going share with you how to teach language based on the research, the studies and literature from the Field of Second Language Acquisition, the field that studies every aspect of how we learn a language, and from my own experience as a language instructor and as language learner myself. I will also share demo lessons in different languages to show you how to apply different concepts that I’ll mention in the podcast. Once again, thank you for considering listening to our podcast, and I hope I can contribute to your journey as a one-on-one language teacher.
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Ep 21: Interview with Lindsay from Lindsay Does Languages

How to Teach a LanguageDec 01, 2022

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Ep 2 en español: Enseña en Contexto
Sep 30, 202312:07
Ep 1 en español: Presentación de Joel
Sep 23, 202313:31
Ep 23: Foreign Language Teaching Training from the University of Texas at Austin

Ep 23: Foreign Language Teaching Training from the University of Texas at Austin

SHOW NOTES

Visit the Website at the University of Texas at Austin

https://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/

Discover my podcasts to learn Spanish and see how I also apply my knowledge in the design of the podcasts

Spanish for Beginners Podcast (Complete and Low Beginners)

⁠https://www.jezsc.com/pages/podcasts/spanish_for_beginners.html⁠

Help Me Learn Spanish, Joel (High Beginners & Intermediate)

⁠https://www.jezsc.com/pages/podcasts/help_me_learn_spanish.html⁠

Mini Stories to Learn Spanish Podcast (High Beginners & Intermediate)

⁠https://www.jezsc.com/pages/podcasts/mini_stories_spanish_podcasts.html⁠

Show Me the World in Spanish (Intermediate & Advanced)

⁠https://www.jezsc.com/pages/podcasts/sws_podcast.html⁠

Conversations in Spanish & Other Languages Podcast (Intermediate & Advanced)

⁠https://www.jezsc.com/pages/podcasts/conversations_spanish_podcasts.html⁠

Thank you for listening!

Aug 19, 202310:10
Ep 22: Connectionism
Aug 12, 202316:09
Ep 21: Interview with Lindsay from Lindsay Does Languages
Dec 01, 202250:23
Ep 20: Interview with Camila Meireles, a Portuguese Online Teacher
May 26, 202247:40
Ep 19: Interview with Milton Ralph, A Spanish Online Teacher

Ep 19: Interview with Milton Ralph, A Spanish Online Teacher

Milton Ralph offers Spanish lessons on italki and verbling, and in this conversation, he shares his experience offering private lesson online.

Visit the webpage for this episode

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-25/htlp_ep019_milton.html

Visit Milton's profile page on italki

https://www.italki.com/teacher/4830207/spanish


May 18, 202222:18
Ep 18: Acquisition
May 04, 202220:46
Ep 17: Input Flood
Apr 20, 202215:44
Ep 16: Input Enhancement
Apr 13, 202218:27
Ep 15: Thoughts on Teaching Grammar
Apr 03, 202220:32
Ep 14: Reflecting on the Exploratory Lessons

Ep 14: Reflecting on the Exploratory Lessons

Show Notes:

 In this episode, In this episode, I share with you some thoughts about the exploratory lessons to help you become a reflective language teacher.

Visit the webpage por this episode

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-25/htlp_ep014_reflecting_expl_lesson.html

Listen to my podcast: Conversations in Spanish and Other Languages. This is a podcast for intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish.

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-in-spanish-other-languages/id1450548526

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2BaaWyvF71c0AfGa9WT021

Listen on Google Podcasts

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Nzb2xwL2ZlZWQueG1s

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts and materials.

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

Feb 23, 202214:24
Ep 13: Beginner Hindi Exploratory Lesson
Feb 09, 202213:07
Ep 12: Beginner Japanese Exploratory Lesson

Ep 12: Beginner Japanese Exploratory Lesson

In this episode, I am sharing with you another exploratory lesson. This time, I am sharing with you a beginner Japanese exploratory lesson.

The goal of this lesson is to give you an opportunity to experience what is like to be a complete beginner in another language to encourage you to reflect about teaching and learning as well as implementing the concepts that I have shared with you on previous episodes.

Open the webpage for this lesson

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-20/htlp_ep012_beg_japanese_expl_lesson.html

Listen to other podcast to learn Spanish: Conversations in Spanish and Other Languages. This is a podcast for intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish.

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-in-spanish-other-languages/id1450548526

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2BaaWyvF71c0AfGa9WT021

Listen on Google Podcasts

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Nzb2xwL2ZlZWQueG1s

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts and materials.

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

Jan 27, 202220:50
Ep 11: Japanese Vocabulary for Food L1 for Next Exploratory Lesson

Ep 11: Japanese Vocabulary for Food L1 for Next Exploratory Lesson

 Show Notes:

In this episode, I am sharing with you a vocabulary lesson in Japanese about food lesson 1 in preparation for the next Japanese exploratory lesson.

Visit the webpage for this episode 

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-20/htlp_ep011_japanese_food1_vocab_lesson.html

Open the Japanese vocabulary lesson with the words and pictures to follow along with the pronunciation

https://www.jezsc.com/vocabularios/japanese/pages/comida1/comida1_pics.html

Listen to my other podcast to learn Spanish: Conversations in Spanish and Other Languages. This is a podcast for intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish.

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-in-spanish-other-languages/id1450548526

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2BaaWyvF71c0AfGa9WT021

Listen on Google Podcasts

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Nzb2xwL2ZlZWQueG1s

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts and materials.

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

Jan 14, 202211:37
Ep 10: Beginner German Exploratory Lesson
Jan 05, 202219:20
Ep 09: Beginner Russian Exploratory Lesson
Dec 17, 202115:39
Ep 08: Beginner Chinese Exploratory Lesson
Dec 11, 202123:44
Ep 07: Teach in Context Not in Isolation
Nov 30, 202116:49
Ep 06: The Input Hypothesis

Ep 06: The Input Hypothesis

 | Show Notes |

 In this episode, I am going over the Input Hypothesis and the i + 1 concept that professor Stephen Krashen coined to explain how it is that we develop the subconscious command of a language.

Visit the webpage for the episode

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-20/htlp_ep006_input_hypothesis.html

The Conversations in Spanish and Other Languages Podcast

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-in-spanish-other-languages/id1450548526

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2BaaWyvF71c0AfGa9WT021

Listen on Google Podcasts

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Nzb2xwL2ZlZWQueG1s

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts.

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

 

Nov 13, 202116:30
Ep 05: The Zone of Proximal Development

Ep 05: The Zone of Proximal Development

 | Show Notes |

In this episode, I talk about the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), and what it means for us as language teachers.

Visit the webpage for the episode which contains the PDF with the Finnish phrases.

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-20/htlp_ep005_zpd.html

The Conversations in Spanish and Other Languages Podcast

Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-in-spanish-other-languages/id1450548526

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2BaaWyvF71c0AfGa9WT021

Listen on Google Podcasts

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2Nzb2xwL2ZlZWQueG1s

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts.

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

Oct 21, 202118:51
Ep 04: Comprehensible Input
Oct 06, 202128:46
Ep 03: 6 Books to Read

Ep 03: 6 Books to Read

 | Show Notes |

 In this episode, I am recommending 6 books that you should read. These books can give you a very good foundation to understand how we learn languages, and how to teach a language.

Visit this episode webpage with the PDF with the Filipino phrases

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-20/htlp_ep03.html

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts.

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

If you love the podcast, please recommend the podcast and/or share your favorite episode on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social media.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

Sep 29, 202115:57
Ep 02: Learn Things in Other Languages

Ep 02: Learn Things in Other Languages

| Show Notes |

 In this episode, I am going to share with you why I think that it is important to learn vocabulary, phrases, words or other things in other languages to make you a better language instructor and help you to become a reflective language teacher.

Visit this episode webpage with the PDF with the Japanese phrases:

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/how_tlp_episodes/ep_01-20/htlp_ep02.html

Visit my main website and explore my other podcasts:

https://www.jezsc.com/

If you are listening on your iPhone with the Apple podcast app, please give us a 5 star review. You can also write a review of the podcast if you like. Your reviews are very helpful to encourage others to listen to it and join our community.

If you love the podcast, please recommend the podcast and/or share your favorite episode on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any other social media.

Thank you for listening to our podcast!

Sep 23, 202118:13
Ep 01: About the How to Teach a Language Podcast
Sep 16, 202117:51
¿Cuál es la lengua más difícil de aprender?
Sep 27, 201932:02
What's the most difficult language to learn?

What's the most difficult language to learn?

Show Notes

 In this episode, I discuss the idea that there is a most difficult language to learn. I am sharing my thoughts on it with you, and I also bring information from the field of Second Language Acquisition to approach this question and see what we come up with.

 Documentary about a whistling in Oaxaca, Mexico.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPuE0UMEMEs&t=295s

 Foreign Language Methods Modules at the University of Texas at Austin. This is the chart I refer to in this episode.

https://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/technology/01/

 German Song: Das kommt mir Spanisch vor! (that sounds like Spanish to me).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzUzk42W0GE

 Do you want to learn Spanish by listening to conversations that you can understand? Check out my podcast, “Conversations in Spanish & Other Languages Podcast.”

https://www.jezsc.com/csolp/all_sessions.html

If you are listening on iTunes, I would love it if you leave me a 5 star review and a written review. Your comments are very helpful to help the show succeed in this platform.

Thank you for listening!

Jul 22, 201927:56
La teoría de la captación: Noticing Hypothesis
May 30, 201943:17
The Noticing Hypothesis

The Noticing Hypothesis

In this episode, I am discussing the Noticing Hypothesis which is another interesting topic that can help you in your journey to become better language learners and better language teachers.

Professor Richard Schmidt website:

http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/aboutus/schmidt/

Visit my website:

https://www.jezsc.com/

Visit the Second Language Acquisition Workshop Podcast website:

https://www.jezsc.com/slawp/

If you are listening on iTunes, I would love it if you leave me a 5 star review and a written review. Your comments are very helpful to help the show succeed in this platform.

Thank you for listening!

Mar 24, 201936:15
Entretien avec Katy B., M.A. in French (French Version)
Feb 26, 201901:20:02
Interview with Katy B., M.A. (English Version)
Feb 08, 201901:22:54
What's the big surprise, Joel! We are dying to know!
Jan 28, 201938:52
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Dec 21, 201802:22
¡Feliz navidad y próspero año nuevo!
Dec 21, 201802:46
Intervista con Martina Scattolin (Italian Version)

Intervista con Martina Scattolin (Italian Version)

In this episode, I am interviewing my good friend Martina Scattolin and the entire interview is in Italian. You’ll have a change to hear Martina express herself in her native language, Italian, and you’ll also hear me speak Italian.

Martina's Profile Page on my Website:

http://jezsc.com/contributors/pages/martina_scattolin.html

Martina's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCERlPo0cedYaPJZdHEU0bCw

Martina's Italian Bites Website:

https://www.italianbites.org/

Martina's Suggestion for Music to listen in Italian

http://www.jezsc.com/musica/pages/italian.html

Visit my website

http://www.jezsc.com/

http://www.joelezaratespanishcafe.com/

Podcast Email

slaworkshoppodcast@yahoo.com

If you like the podcast, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and please leave me a five star review on iTunes to help me grow and reach more who are interested or curious about how we learn languages. If you have 2 minutes, please leave me a comment as well to give new listeners an idea of what this podcast is about and what they can learn from the podcast

Thank you very much!

Dec 14, 201851:22
Interview with Martina Scattolin (English Version)
Dec 07, 201858:24
La importancia del input para aprender una lengua

La importancia del input para aprender una lengua

En este episodio, exploramos el papel y la importancia del input en el proceso de aprender una lengua. 

Visita mi sitio web

http://www.jezsc.com/

Podcast Email

slaworkshoppodcast@yahoo.com

Por favor, regálenme una reseña de 5 estrellas y un comentario en iTunes para ayudarme a llegar a más personas interesadas en el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de lenguas. 

¡Muchas gracias!

Oct 28, 201835:00
The Role of Input in Learning Another Language

The Role of Input in Learning Another Language

In this episode, we explore the importance of input in the process of acquiring another language. 

Visita mi sitio web

http://www.jezsc.com/

Podcast Email

slaworkshoppodcast@yahoo.com

Por favor, regálenme una reseña de 5 estrellas y un comentario en iTunes para ayudarme a llegar a más personas interesadas en el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de lenguas. 

¡Muchas gracias!

Oct 13, 201833:58
La Gramática Universal y la Hipótesis del Período Crítico
Oct 09, 201855:57
Universal Grammar and The Critical Period Hypothesis
Sep 27, 201839:02
La teoria conductista y el método audiolingüe
Sep 05, 201845:41
Behaviorism or Behavior Theory & The Audio-Lingual Method
Aug 15, 201832:49
El Modelo del Monitor

El Modelo del Monitor

En este episodio, abordo uno de los modelos del aprendizaje de una segunda lengua que ha sido un modelo muy interesante y al mismo tiempo generó debate entre los académicos e investigadores del campo de la adquisición de segundas lenguas.

Pare ver los apuntes, referencias y comentarios adicionales del episodio, favor de visitar la página del episodio en mi sitio web.

Visite: http://www.jezsc.com/slawp/

En más fácil para mi actualizar los apuntes y comentarios en mi sitio web.

Muchas gracias por escuchar el episodio. 

May 15, 201847:58
The Monitor Model
May 15, 201838:16
Bienvenidos al SLA Workshop Podcast: ¡Iniciemos esta aventura!

Bienvenidos al SLA Workshop Podcast: ¡Iniciemos esta aventura!

Bienvenidos al SLA Workshop Podcast. En este episodio, les hablo sobre el propósito, objetivo y futuro de este podcast el cual tiene como meta principal darles una ventana hacia lo que sabemos de cómo aprendemos una segunda lengua basado en la investigación del campo de la adquisición de segundas lenguas The Second Language Acquisition (SLA) field

May 15, 201822:44
Welcome to the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Workshop Podcast: Let's begin this journey!

Welcome to the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Workshop Podcast: Let's begin this journey!

In this first episode of the SLA Workshop Podcast, I give you an overview of what this podcast will be about, what intend to accomplish with the podcast, and the future of the podcast. Thank you for joining me on this adventure to discover what we know about how we learn languages from the field of second language acquisition and become better language learners and better language teachers. 

May 15, 201819:58