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Grammar as a Concept

Do ACTFL levels describe language development?

Use of the L2 in Grammar Explanations

Balancing Authentic/Found Resources and Created Resources

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

Teaching Grammar? Start with Input!

Referential and Affective Tasks in Structured Input

Bill Talks about SI and Eats It Up

Performance and Proficiency

Girlboss

Form-Focused Feedback

Structured Input 2: Electric Boogaloo

Rethinking Our Relationship to Grammar

References

Social Accounts:

Facebook

Bluesky

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Stacy’s BlueSky Account

Language Learner Literature Advisory Board - reviews of readers for issues of identity/bias

Stacy’s Session at ACTFL 2025: Friday, 5:30pm, Room 213

Ben’s SideBar at ACTFL 2025: Saturday, 11-11:45am

Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom by Henshaw and Hawkins

Timothy Chavez’ Instagram Account - language teaching research and practice

Artists:

Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley

Main Points

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Parking on New Vocabulary

Allowing for Negotiating Meaning

Talking Ourselves Out of Using the TL

Gatekeep - Adu, Michael & Abunya, Levina & Owusu, Edward & Budu, Gifty. (2025). THE IMPACT OF INTERACTION ON SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LISTENING. 31-42.

Input + Interaction

Quantity + Redundancy + Complexity

Girlboss

Teach to the Eyes (Despite the “Gen Z Stare”)

Teaching Students How to React

Synonym Stacking

MODEL EVERYTHING

References

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

Social Accounts:

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Bluesky

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Bill’s Rules

Ben’s TL Usage Reflection

Dr. Liam Printer and The Motivated Classroom Podcast

Carrie Toth’s “Discussion Thursdays”

Krashen and Mason: “Comprehension-Aiding Supplementation”

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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

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Feedback Options (via Meredith White)