Teaching Tips & Tricks | What Does Growth Mindset Have to Do With Language Learning?

For your students, a growth mindset will beat out a fixed mindset, every day of the week. Your language guide Emily (teacher, PhD) will explain what the difference is, why growth mindsets matter, and provide 4 easy tips to foster growth and help your students embrace a more resilient approach to language learning!
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Wondering what languages were used in today’s episode?
Polish | Cześć is ‘Hi!’ and Do widzenia - miłego dnia! is ‘Goodbye - have a nice day!’
Italian | Bando alle ciance is ‘without further ado’ (lit. ‘ban the chatter’)
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Want to explore more of the research underlying this video?
Lou, N. M., & Noels, K. A. (2019). Promoting growth in foreign and second language education: A research agenda for mindsets in language learning and teaching. System, 86, 102126.
Lou, N. M., & Noels, K. A. (2017). Measuring language mindsets and modeling their relations with goal orientations and emotional and behavioral responses in failure situations. The Modern Language Journal, 101(1), 214-243.
Leith, S. A., Ward, C. L., Giacomin, M., Landau, E. S., Ehrlinger, J., & Wilson, A. E. (2014). Changing theories of change: Strategic shifting in implicit theory endorsement. Journal of personality and social psychology, 107(4), 597.
Dr. Carol Dweck’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiiEeMN7vbQ
Meet your guide Emily! Emily Sabo (PhD, University of Michigan) is a linguist at Mango Languages. A Pittsburgh native, her areas of specialization are the social and cognitive factors that impact bilingual language processing and production. Having studied 7 languages and lived in various countries abroad, she sees multilingualism -- and the cultural diversity that accompanies it -- as the coolest of superpowers. Complementary to her work at Mango, Emily is a Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, a Producer of the “We Are What We Speak’ docuseries, and get this...a storytelling standup comedian!
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