Talkin L2 with BVP

In the research, there are lots of comparisons between explicit and implicit teaching. But is this a real thing? Or are we just fooling ourselves? This segment is a continuation of the role of grammar in language teaching. You won't want to miss this discussion as we get into the idea that things don't always seem to be what they claim to be. Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter as well as our amazing callers while they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Input and More TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.inputandmore.com www.TPRSbooks.com

Happy almost end of September, everyone! This week we're going to tackle a perennial topic. We notice that in on-line sites, webinars, and other venues there are conflicting posts and presentations about a focus on grammar in the classroom and in acquisition. Is it necessary? Is it helpful? What does it do? There's only one way to address the issue: and that's to ask ourselves this question: Does the research offer any unqualified support for the role of grammar teaching in any way? If so, what is it? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP and Angelika as well as our amazing callers while they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Input and More TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.inputandmore.com www.TPRSbooks.com

So glad to be back! Join us this week as we focus on an old saying: "Teachers may teach, but only learners can learn." Just what does this mean in language acquisition? And why does Bill want to title this episode "The Learner is in Charge"? This should prove to be an interesting conversation as we challenge some long held norms in educational circles. Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Input and More TPRS Books CIMidwest Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.inputandmore.com www.TPRSbooks.com www.cimidwest.com

Join us this week in the first episode of our second season! Bill, Angelika, and Walter are all champing at the bit to connect with everyone again. So what's the topic? Everyone uses the buzzword "CI!", "CI!" but does everyone know just why comprehensible, communicatively embedded input provides the only real linguistic data for acquisition? Just why is it necessary? And what does it actually do? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Input and More TPRS Books CIMidwest Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.inputandmore.com www.tprsbooks.com www.cimidwest.com

Join us this week in the last episode of season 1! We sure have had a good time doing this show and we want to thank all of our listeners, sponsors, and supporters for making this a great first year. This week our topic takes us back full circle to our first show of the year as we tie input and acquisition with communicative language teaching: What are the principles of Comprehension-based Communicative Language Teaching? This is one of those "must shows" for people wanting to get the basics down into a short list for colleagues, administrators, parents, and others. Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Fluency Fast Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com www.fluencyfast.com

Join us this week for everyone’s favorite topic: implicit learning. Although we know acquisition is largely if not exclusively an implicit process, why do many teachers and textbooks think that explicit information and practice helps? And what do we mean by an implicit process? Is any part of acquisition explicit in nature? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Fluency Fast Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com www.fluencyfast.com

This week’s topic is: Is input enough? For a number of years now we have heard scholars say that "input is necessary but it's not sufficient." What do they mean? And what's the evidence for this statement? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Fluency Fast Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com www.fluencyfast.com

This week we're focusing on something that keeps coming up in conversations among many teachers: is a theory of language acquisition applicable to learning how to write? In what ways are the acquisition of language and learning how to write in an L2 similar or different? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com

Join us in this episode for this week’s topic. Is the distinction between learning and acquisition an outdated concept? How are scholars and others talking about such differences? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com

Talkin’ L2 with BVP - episode 28 This week we will continue and conclude our discussion from last week about negotiation of meaning. Now that we have a definition (and we know that negotiation of meaning is not the same thing as communication or interaction), this week we will look at the following question: During interaction, when speakers enter into negotiation of meaning because of a communication problem, what does the research say on how this affects acquisition? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com

Join us in this episode for this week’s topic: negotiation of meaning. Where did this term originate? What does it mean? How has it been misused when applied to language teaching? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Tapas TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com

We’re glad to be back after a week off with this brand new episode! This week’s topic is “Processing: the hidden part of acquisition and why acquisition is largely implicit.” When a learner hears a sentence, just what does the learner have to do internally for acquisition to occur? What gets processed and how does processing “make a grammar” in the learner’s head? Tune in to hear our hosts BVP, Angelika and Walter and our amazing callers as they discuss this week’s topic as well as whatever else comes up! Sponsors: Evia Learning StudenTreasures Tapas TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.evialearning.com www.studentreasures.com/BVP www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com

We’ve had so many requests to do a show on output in language acquisition and language teaching that we decided to do one now! Here are some questions our hosts will explore. What does output do for acquisition? Does the kind of output make a difference? Is output the same as “negotiation of meaning”? Sponsors: Evia Learning StudenTreasures Classroom Tapas TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! www.evialearning.com www.studentreasures.com/BVP www.classroomtapas.com www.tprsbooks.com

Even though language acquisition takes place in social and communicative environments, ultimately it's what happens inside the learner's mind/brain that tells us something about acquisition. Join us this week as we have a special guest who will briefly discuss research on how the brain processes language and what this tells us, if anything, about explicit and implicit learning of languages. Sponsors: Evia Learning, Studentreasures, Tapas and TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites!
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This week we're going to wrap up our series of facts that teachers need to know about L2 acquisition. The topic: can learners become native-like? If so, what does that mean? What implications are there for language teachers about how far learners seem to get in language acquisition? Join us as Bill, Angelika, and Walter wrap up our five-week series on facts that every teacher should know! Sponsors: Evia Learning, Voces Digital, Tapas and TPRS Books Visit any of our sponsors at their websites! 
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