Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Claudia Elliott, World Language educator

Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input? If you are, you're in the right place. Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cove...

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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Episodes (213)

Today Re-Release Episode 163: Silent Discussions — A Simple Strategy to Boost Interpersonal Communication in Your Language Classes
Thu Mar 12th Episode 183: Dictation + Communication: How to Make Dictation Purposefully Communicative With Keith Toda
Thu Mar 5th Re-Release Episode 114: Talking about Listening Comprehension in World Language Education with Marta Ruiz Yedinek

Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Mar 19, 2026
54½ minutes
37 MB

Send us Fan Mail I’m re-releasing this episode today because Silent Discussions have become one of the most powerful activities in my classroom. Recently, during a formal observation, my assistant principal watched my students fully engaged in a Silent Discussion for almost 30 minutes—reading, asking questions, responding to each other, and learning from their classmates. If you’ve been looking for a strategy that truly gets students interacting in the target language, this episode is a great place to start. Have you ever felt like getting your students to really use the target...

Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Re-Release Episode 163: Silent Discussions — A Simple Strategy to Boost Interpersonal Communication in Your Language Classes

Claudia Elliott, World Language educator

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