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Grammar instruction or grammar learning? We dive into this with today's guests.

Tania Ionin is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of expertise include second language acquisition and experimental semantics, with a focus on the nominal domain.

Silvina Montrul is Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the director of the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab, founder and director of the University Language Academy for Children, and former director of the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE).

Together, they have written and published the book "Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research."

In this episode, they discuss:

• grammatical knowledge in the context of language acquisition
• what intervention research is
• why we expect too much of adult learners
• how instruction contributes or doesn't contribute to grammar acquisition
• efficacious conditions for grammar instruction
• how educators can influence the learning of grammar
• why studying monolinguals helps to understand L2 acquisition
• literate vs illiterate native speakers for a study on grammatical knowledge

For more on today's guests:

1. Get their book "SLA: Introducing Intervention Research"

2. Silvina's website

3. Tania's website

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So many teachers focus on teaching when they should focus on something else. In this episode, we dive into this with the great Bill VanPatten.

Bill VanPatten is an award-winning scholar and teacher with an international reputation in the fields of second language acquisition and second language teaching. He is a requested speaker at conferences and meetings and over the course of his career he has given over 500 keynote speeches, plenaries, invited talks, and workshops.

We chat with Bill about why:

• the majority of teaching is not in accordance with SLA research
• Krashen was right
• teachers need to get rid of the "Atlas Complex"
• most people don't understand what a communicative classroom means
• grammar rules are not psychologically real
• many researchers don't want to talk to teachers
• understanding how non-college educated L1 speakers process language shows explicit instruction's ineffectiveness
• if learners can do your assignments using AI, the assignment is flawed

For more from Bill:

1. Visit his website.

2. His recent article "Krashen forty years later: Final comments"

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So many teachers feel they can't teach pronunciation if their speech doesn't sound a certain way. Listen to this episode to discover why that isn't true.

Robin Walker and Gemma Archer are pronunciation specialists who co-authored "Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World," which aims to encourage pronunciation instruction from a lingua franca and intelligibility perspective.

We chat with Robin & Gemma about:

• intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness
• why the Lingua Franca Core is what teachers should learn
• their disdain for Jennifer Jenkins' criticism of them - before realizing she was right
• how intelligibility is the thing that allows pronunciation to do its job
• weak forms and why they're not necessary for intelligibility
• why the goal of international intelligibility doesn't exclude other goals
• how to measure intelligibility & use Linca Franca Core diagnostics with your students

Grab their book here.

For more from Gemma:

1. Follow her on LinkedIn

2. The Scottish Sound School

For more from Robin:

1. Follow him on LinkedIn

2. His website - Englishglobal.com

As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you.

If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com

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