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SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone

By: Ben Fisher-Rodriguez Bill Langley Bryan Smith
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Join Ben (he/him), and Bill (he/him) as they Gaslight (reflect), Gatekeep (read research), and Girlboss (share successes) language teaching!

© 2025 SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone
Language Learning
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  • Ep. 26: SLAyyy Differentiated Instruction
    Oct 7 2025

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    Gaslight

    Challenge and Accommodation

    The Neverending Rubric

    Time Investment

    Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Gatekeep - Tajik, O., Noor, S. & Golzar, J. Investigating differentiated instruction and the contributing factors to cater EFL students’ needs at the collegial level. Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ. 9, 74 (2024).

    Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

    Content, Process, Product, Learning Environment

    Girlboss

    Diverse Tips for Differentiating!

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Feedback Options (via Meredith White)

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    41 mins
  • Ep. 25: SLAyyy Pronunciation Pedagogy
    Sep 23 2025

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    Gaslight

    Everything Will Work Out in the End (Maybe?)

    The Critical Period

    Relationship to One’s Own Accent

    Gatekeep - Vijay A Ramjattan, Imagining an anti-racist pronunciation pedagogy, ELT Journal, Volume 78, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 318–325

    Webinar on the Same Topic

    Refusal - Relational - Activist

    Girlboss

    Parking on the Language to Enjoy It!

    How do we frame pronunciation to our students and colleagues?

    Butter Ladder

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    Bill’s Article About Podcasts as Means of Knowledge Brokering

    Growing with Proficiency: The Podcast by Claudia Elliott

    Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit

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    58 mins
  • Ep. 24: SLAyyy Shared Reading with Storybooks
    Sep 9 2025

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    Gaslight

    Missing Out on Kindergarten Day

    Kids Books Are For the Adults

    Bored During Shared Reading

    Gatekeep -

    Reading Children’s Books Rule

    How many repetitions do they need?

    Use of L1 to Get Back to the L2

    Program Length, Abstraction, Home Language

    Girlboss

    Park and Pause

    Comprehension-Based Reader Storybooks

    Picture Talk

    Story Listening

    Justice for Kindergarten Day

    References

    Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency by Ritz and Travers

    Social Accounts:

    Facebook

    Bluesky

    Instagram

    El último árbol - Margarita Perez Garcia

    No somos amigos - Señor Wooly

    Story Listening and Guided Self-Selected Reading

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    41 mins
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