Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

About Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

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 cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com

Publisher

Claudia Elliott, World Language educator

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Sept 2022

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 of 244 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Episodio 210: Cómo enseñar a estudiantes hablantes de herencia: un libro gratis y estrategias con la Dra. Nancy Domínguez-Fret

   Dr. Nancy Domínguez-Fret shares strategies for teaching heritage language students, discussing her new book and the importance of multilingual identity in this interview.

2. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 209: How to Teach Reading and Writing Skills in the World Language Classroom: A Conversation with Dr. Lara Bryfonski

   Host Dr. Lara Bryfonski shares insights on teaching reading and writing skills in world language classrooms, differentiating literacy from acquisition.

3. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Episode 208: When a Student Says “I Hate This Class”: A Framework for Responding Without Reacting

   Host Dr. Jane Smith shares a framework for responding to student negativity without reacting, offering insights into managing classroom challenges.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 209: How to Teach Reading and Writing Skills in the World Language Classroom: A Conversation with Dr. Lara Bryfonski

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] How my students... cannot really organize these thoughts. So let's talk about the different, because I think we were talking about before I hit play, and I think you explained it so well and so clear. And I want to have that clarity before we're starting the strategies. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I will first say that this is something that I struggled with, too, as a language teacher. And I think that one thing that we forget as highly literate adults often is that literacy is not just given. It's something that you learn even in your first language, right? You have to be explicitly taught how to read and write, unlike acquiring oral speech as a child, which comes naturally as long as you're exposed to it from your family or caregivers, right? […]

Who has been a guest on Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Nancy Domínguez-Fret
• Lara Bryfonski
• Bertha Delgadillo
• Bethanie Carlson Drew
• Ben Fisher-Rodriguez

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

87 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

31 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

86

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

Contact Growing With Proficiency The Podcast

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

Questions about Growing With Proficiency The Podcast