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Please Don’t Burn Yourself Out!

Know Your Context

Gatekeep - Wadas, M., Goetze, J., & Jackson, C. (2024). Going above and beyond: Motivations of L2 German learners to (dis)continue language study. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 57, 87–102.

Girlboss

Meditating on the Ideal Self

Don’t Waste Your Own Time!

Love Culture, and Develop a Growth Mindset

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

CI Reboot - fully online conference for CCLT - use affiliate code SLAYY2026

Ben’s Blog Post About Program Growth

Mike Peto - Las maravillas

The German Club Ideas List

Artists:

Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley

Main Points

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone Website

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Strategies Are Not Top of Mind

How to Balance Test Prep and Real World Use

Target Language Usage vs. L1 Talk About Metacognition

Gatekeep - Sarafianou, Anna & Gavriilidou, Zoe. (2015). The effect of strategy-based instruction on strategy use by upper-secondary Greek students of EFL. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching. 12. 21-34.

Types of Strategies

Teaching Strategies → Knowing Strategies!

But What Do the Strategies…Do?

Girlboss

Teaching the Use of Logical Connectors (and Complete Sentences)

Breaking Words Down

Use Up Those Commercial Breaks!

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

CI Reboot - fully online conference for CCLT - use affiliate code SLAYY2026

AnneMarie Chase - 20 Questions

Bryce Hedstrom - Reading Bookmark

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Lack of Communicative Purpose

Bad Input! Bad!

Need for Scaffolding

We Teach Much More Than Language

Gatekeep - Sadri, E. & Tahririan, M.H.. (2018). Teacher-assisted vs. peer-assisted performances and L2 development: A mixed methods approach. Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics. 9. 3-27.

When Do Students Get the Most Gains from Peer Assistance?

Feedback Amount and Quality

What This Feedback Accomplished

Girlboss

Bill’s Framework That Slays

The Question of Proportion

Interactive Tasks That Are Secretly Input

Real Tasks, Really Supported

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

Instagram

Timothy Chávez on Instagram and His Website!

Examples of Tasks shared by Timothy

Arcoíris from The Comprehensible Classroom

Huellas from Somewhere to Share

AnneMarie Chase - AP Strategies