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233: Techniques to Get Students Talking with Christina Margiore


Do you want your students to feel more confident and eager to share their ideas in the target language? In this episode, we’ll explore strategies that help learners move beyond words and phrases and into real discourse and communication. I’m joined by Christina Margiore, a Spanish teacher in New York, who brings practical routines and low-prep techniques that create a supportive environment and spark authentic conversations. You’ll get simple ways to increase student talk time right away.

Topics in this Episode:

  • barriers or obstacles that keep students from speaking in the target language and how to support students
  • routines and strategies that create a safe, low-pressure environment for student talk?
  • technique that support hesitant students
  • designing tasks that lead to authentic, meaningful interactions
  • strategies teachers can try right away
  • Christina’s Free Chat Mats

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121: Using Chat Mats in the Language Classroom with Christina Margiore


Have you used chat mats in your classroom? Even if you haven’t, I’m sure that you have heard about this useful tool to support students.  Today, Christina Margiore,  a Spanish teacher on Long Island, New York, joins me to talk us through all the details involved with creating and using chat mats.  If you are using them already, you will get some new ideas for sure.  New to chat mats?  No problem.  You’ll soon be ready to use them with ease. 

Topics in this Episode:

  • what chat mats are and how they are beneficial in the language classroom
  • elements to you include in chat mats
  • building on existing chat mats and creating new chat mats by unit
  • specific examples of how incorporating chat mats into lessons and activities
  • tips for implementing chat mat

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