Episode 0: Bonus episode deciding the podcast scope & title

Conversations about Language Teaching

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Bonus episode 0 of Conversations about Language Teaching.
SHOW NOTES: Our actual notes for planning this podcast episode & the podcast overall.
1. Deciding on a title for the show: Conversations about language teaching with Diane Neubauer and Reed Riggs

2. Blurbs about us:

- Diane came from being a language learner, then a language teacher, then PhD program in teacher education, then teacher education

- Both learned Chinese in China, living there for several years. Both have taught K-12 Chinese in schools in the United States. Both have been involved in language teacher training for ten years.

- Diane: PhD in Language education, taught 10 years K-12 Chinese in the United States

- Reed: PhD in Chinese linguistics and Language Development, currently teaching IB Mandarin to 9-12 students

3. The podcast purpose and scope:

- New YouTube account, title of show
- Post promo video to own YouTube channels
- Post references to research, literature in show notes as links

1. To talk through big and little ideas related to language teaching
2. How the field as a whole is talking about these issues, and our thoughts about that
3. How those can be viewed in research
4. How our own experience informs our thinking about them

4. Final points

Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo

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