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Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 25

Additionally, we're doingbook club with @stacywitkowski.bsky.social with "Proficiency Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency" on our FB Page. Grab your copy at the ACTFL store, and get ready to Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss the book with us starting the week of August 18th. #langchat

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 21

See if you can come up with a sequence/framework for how you like your units to go. For my lvl 4 it goes: Hook, read/discuss an article, collaborative writing, class review, read/view/discuss resources, Ss create something to demonstrate comp, review, assessment. languageley.com/2025/06/09/a...

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 …

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Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 18

Count your days, Grammarly. Telling me my tone sounds off because I sound "confident" >.>

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 18

Could this have any application to reading instruction/comprehension if someone uses bilateral beats while reading/studying? #langsky Like, if I'm reading and I've got the sounds moving between ears, could it help with retaining/processing information?

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

I think choice is a very important piece, and you're right, it is hard, but we find ways.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

The discussion then becomes “what does success look like” and I think that’s something we have to define for ourselves in our own contexts. That’s why I think it’s important to know our goals. Then we can look at if we are being equitable in achieving those goals.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks for your thoughtful replies! On this one I think some tend equate academic success with equity. That could be true for anything though, not just CI.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

Same with our textbooks, exams seem to be improving, there are only a few national tests that I know of that test explicit grammar. Some grammatical awareness is beneficial, I think. But I prefer "pop-up" grammar, brief, in-the-moment explanations that support comprehension.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

There's a reason I teach about the Spanish Civil War every year... I'm just teaching history through language, I can't help it if my students are critical thinkers and see history repeating itself.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

When planning, I try to keep in mind: Lead with CI, do no harm, then add whatever else feels appropriate (whether it's explicit grammar or vocabulary practice, a role play, etc). The CI and content will hopefully reach all Ss, and then we can add whatever differentiation we deem necessary

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

I think cognitively, that may very well be true. Where there seems to be contention with that claim is that equitable teaching should also consider who and what are represented in curricular materials, and how we talk about that representation.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks for giving me something to think about!

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

I think that would fit nicely into UDL. Honestly, I think the more we learn about how languages are learned the more we will naturally fall into UDL. I don't know a lot about memory research, but I know some Ts in the US incorporate varieties of delayed dictation activities (like running dictation).

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

I owe a lot of learning about equitable teaching to @doriec.bsky.social @stacywitkowski.bsky.social @mrfishersays.bsky.social @amandabenavidez.bsky.social @lanierlingvista.bsky.social and many many more. I'd love to know what you think of this post I wrote for an EdD. assignment

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 4

#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.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 2

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
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Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jul 2

She just came out with a new book “el niño” that I’m interested in reading, too!

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jun 26

Oooh thanks!

Bill Langley @languageley.bsky.social · Jun 26

Nice! I have never actually read the whole book, I’ll check it out