Teaching Languages Today | Discovering Languages Programs (feat. Tracye Thomas)

When faced with selecting which World Language to study, many high school students end up shrugging and choosing the most popular language track by default. But what if they knew which language really called to them? Enter the “Discovering Languages” program, an exploratory primer course for junior high students! In this episode, our host Emily (linguist, PhD) sits down with Tracye Thomas, Language Acquisition Coordinator at Brazosport Independent School District (Texas). Listen to learn everything you need to know about what a “Discovering Languages” program is, whether it’s right for your district, and 4 tips for bringing this innovative program to life at your school! All of that and more in this episode of Teaching Languages Today!

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Teaching languages today is as exciting as it is challenging! That’s why we here at Mango Languages created “Teaching Languages Today”, a conversational podcast for world language educators that gets to the bottom of what’s working – and what’s not. Listen in for the problems fellow teachers are facing, learn what solutions they’ve found – and get some much-needed self-care reminders of why you fell in love with language teaching to begin with. Your host for the show is language teacher and linguistics researcher Emily Sabo (PhD). In each episode, we’ll learn to see World Language Ed through a new lens, by sitting down with an all-star lineup of teachers, administrators, and students. It’s our hope that the stories you hear in “Teaching Languages Today” will get you thinking – and feeling – differently about what you do in the classroom.