Peace Education and ELT
Online education has overturned many of the ‘givens’ we used to take for granted. We used to be able to make some, more or less, ‘safe’ assumptions about our learners’ […]
IATEFL Manchester 2015 – five years on
<![CDATA[ Pre-Conference Events with the Special Interest Groups For me, the high point of the conference is always the Pre-Conference Day with my chosen Special Interest Group. Since 2015, I […]
IATEFL 2015 in Manchester
<![CDATA[ IATEFL 2015 Once more, the time of the year for IATEFL International has come round. If you are going to be at IATEFL, please make sure we meet up […]
Defragmenting Foreign Language Learning – my talk at TESOL Greece 2013
<![CDATA[Presenting language in small fragments hoping that they will one day automatically transform into fluent near-native talk may not be enough. My talk at TESOL Greece highlighted some ways in which skilled performers achieve excellence and focused on practical activities promoting holistic language learning using a variety of free online […]
Compelling Readings for Language Acquisition
The inspiration for this short blog post was Dr Krashen’s talk, ‘Technology: useful tool if used to create and enhance comprehensible input ‘, was one of the plenaries on the […]
#ELTchat Symposium at the IATEFL Conference in Glasgow – it's today!!!!!!!
<![CDATA[ Continuous professional development through social networking March 22nd from 15.50 – 18.20 in Gala 1 Room For some of us, it will be the first face-to-face meeting. Here is what I mean: I have worked as a co-moderator with Barbara Hoskins-Sakamoto for more than a year now and, although […]
How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence
This short post includes my notes from a presentation I did some years ago at a conference for Foreign Language School Owners in Greece where I was specifically asked to present a workshop on good classroom management. At that time, I had been training a group of directors of studies […]
Reporting after IATEFL Brighton
<![CDATA[I had every good intention of writing these well informed reports about the sessions I went to at IATEFL Brighton, but somehow the conference itself took over and living the experience became more important than reporting it! Experiencing a conference of this magnitude takes a lot of energy! Running from […]
Reporting from the IATEFL Brighton
<![CDATA[This is a quick report of the Pre Conference Events I went to and the first day at IATEFL – there were various PCE events but I briefly went to Associates' Day to be there for the book launch for which Sara Hannam and I wrote a chapter and a […]
Animating your Coursebook
<![CDATA[ Made with wordle.net What is the secret message in the Wordle above? Have you guessed it? If you are pretty happy following your coursebook page after page and exercise after exercise without omitting anything, then this post may read somewhat strange to you. If on the other hand, you have spent […]