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The TEFL Training Institute centers around one big idea – helping teachers develop. If you're a TEFL teacher, trainer or manager and you're looking for new ideas, you've come to the right pl...
The TEFL Training Institute centers around one big idea – helping teachers develop. If you're a TEFL teacher, trainer or manager and you're...
For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher...
For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher...
Mario Rinvolucri, author of “Once Upon a Time: Using stories in the language classroom” talk to us about storytelling, one of the “most comp...
Paul Thompson joins us to talk about corpora and what teachers need to know about them. We discuss how corpora can change how we think about...
Sandie Mourão joins me to discuss using picturebooks with very young learners. We discuss reasons for choosing a story (beyond the words in...
We hear about problems of training teachers, how learners overcome challenges and aspects of language teaching which still lag years behind...
Andrew Wright (author of 5 Minute Activities and Games for Language Learning) talks to us about using games in language class. For more podc...
In a special end of year double length episode, Professor Thomas Guskey, author of Evaluating Professional Development talks to us about the...
We speak with Anne Carmichael, Trinity Diploma in TESOL course director and moderator about what it was like to experience the changes from...
Coursebook writer and teacher trainer Ceri Jones talks to us about mediation. How can teachers mediate their coursebook content to make it m...
Professor Jonathan Newton joins me to discuss intercultural language teaching. What is it and what’s the best way of teaching it?
We speak with friends and experts about teacher training and what needs to change.
Jane Willis joins us to discuss the drawbacks of PPP and the benefits and challenges of using task cycles for language lessons. willis-ELT.c...
In this episode, Stephen Krashen tells Ross some of the arguments against forcing students to speak, something which might not just be ineff...
My friend Niamh Ryan, joins me to talk about evaluating teacher training. How can you tell if your training is making a difference?
In this episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Lesley Painter Farrell about how we can help students retain more language l...
Take our AI course and get one third off using the promo code: ROSS33. Go to AI for Language Teaching | Hong Kong TESOL to sign up. Dave Wel...
Professor Bailey tells us about what supervisors can do to earn trust, why supervision and evaluation is important, and how everyone can mak...
Young learner expert, Annamaria Pinter joins me to talk about getting young learners to communicate with each other.
Paul Thompson from Birmingham University joins me to talk about English for academic purposes. What is academic English? How much does it va...
Professor Michael McCarthy joins me to talk about using corpora in language teaching. Mike tells us how teachers should use corpora when pla...
Professor Jonathan Newton joins me to discuss teaching listening skills. Does it make sense to talk about top-down and bottom-up approaches?...
Thom Kiddle joins me to talk about online teacher training courses. What makes them effective? What best practices are there for trainers? A...
Coursebook writer Ceri Jones joins me to discuss coursebook content. Why are coursebooks still necessary in the 21st century? How can writer...
Regular guest Matt Courtois and I discuss staging lessons with young learners. What is staging? How much should teachers deviate from their...
in class. We discuss prediction activities, what engages students in stories, and how to do follow-up activities. For more podcasts, videos...
TEFL guru Jeremy Harmer joins me to discuss deliberate learning. How important is input? Can students “pick up” language in the classroom wi...
Teacher trainer and regular guest Matt Courtois joins me to discuss observing new teachers. What should we do when new teachers struggle wit...
We talk to friends and experts and ask two questions about changes they’d like to see in classrooms: what common teaching practices would yo...
We discuss classroom activities teachers can use, what it means to get to know your students, and other ways of collecting useful data about...
I speak with Amol Padwad from Ambedkar University Delhi about teacher motivation and teacher development. What incentives make sense for tea...
Regular guest, Matt Courtois joins me to talk about how teachers can encourage young learners to be creative. We discuss what creativity is,...
We talk about how fair the different criteria are, what are some common misunderstandings about the criteria and how teachers can help stude...
Kirsten Campbell from Busuu joins me to discuss how to keep learners engaged in learning using an app. Support the podcast by buying us a co...
Sandie Mourão joins me to discuss how to get young learners to play in English.
Regular guest Matt Courtois and I discuss what makes quality teacher talk. How should young learner teachers give instructions? How much sho...
Dave Weller joins me to talk about how to promote your writing. Dave tells us why you shouldn’t start a blog, where you can write instead, h...
For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher...
Russ Mayne, author of Evidence-Based ELT, joins me to discuss where knowledge about teaching comes from. What common teaching ideas and prac...
Simon Galloway (author of Teaching Teachers Online) joins me to discuss using forums in online teacher training. We talk about how to encour...
Gail Ellis, author of Teaching Children How to Learn, joins me to discuss learning to learn. Gail tells us the importance of encouraging met...
In our longest ever episode, we ask English language teaching legends Diedrick Van Gorp, Debbie Hepplewhite, Stephen Krashen, Vivian Cook, D...
Jake Whiddon and I discuss the two most common questions we get from young learner teachers: “How can I get my students to behave?” and “How...
Mark Pemberton, co-CEO of Study Cat, joins me to talk about app-based language learning. Where is technology based language learning going?...
We speak with Professor Alan Maley, author of Creativity and English Language Teaching, about how constraints can prompt creativity in teach...
Check our Dave’s book, Lesson Planning for Language Teachers, at https://amzn.to/31HJtpk What happens if the important decisions about plann...
Mark Hancock (author of Pronunciation Games, English Pronunciation in Use, Pron Pack and Pen Pictures) tells us about basing lessons around...
Matt Courtois and I talk about how to maintain discipline in your learner classes without using punishment. We discuss the problems with pun...
Simon Galloway (author of Teaching Teachers Online ) joins me to discuss how to run webinars. We discuss how to make the most of breakout ro...