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Peer Observation (with Lesley Painter-Farrell)

Assessment for Learning (with Thom Kiddle)

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Mario Rinvolucri, author of “Once Upon a Time: Using stories in the language classroom” talk to us about storytelling, one of the “most compelling and ancient of human activities”. For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher training courses Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

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 language, how teachers can use corpora when planning and teaching and which aspects of corpus data are most useful in the classroom.

Sandie Mourão joins me to discuss using picturebooks with very young learners. We discuss reasons for choosing a story (beyond the words in the book), how students respond to a book, and how to use parts of picturebooks you might not have noticed before.

We hear about problems of training teachers, how learners overcome challenges and aspects of language teaching which still lag years behind research. For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher training courses Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

We speak with Anne Carmichael, Trinity Diploma in TESOL course director and moderator about what it was like to experience the changes from grammar translation to audio-lingualism to communicative language teaching. For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher training courses Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

Coursebook writer and teacher trainer Ceri Jones talks to us about mediation. How can teachers mediate their coursebook content to make it more meaningful for students? Why are students now expected to be able to mediate between languages? And how can we help learners to mediate texts? For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher training courses Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching (with Jonathan Newton)

We speak with friends and experts about teacher training and what needs to change.

In this episode, I  had the privilege of speaking with Professor Lesley Painter Farrell about how we can help students retain more language lessons for the long haul. During the podcast, Lesley outlines the difference between short-term learning and long-term memory. We discuss evidence-based techniques teachers can implement to optimize retention. Lesley also shares some simple but effective techniques such as recycling content across lessons, building in reflection time, avoiding cognitive overload, and using retrieval practices. Listen now to uncover how we can help our students remember more!

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 Weller joins the show to discuss the benefits and limitations of AI for teachers. Dave explains how AI can help automate administrative tasks and free up time for the more creative aspects of teaching. He also talks about how AI can help teachers in lesson planning, creating customized materials, and analyzing student performance data to differentiate instruction. We also talk about some of the limitations of AI and why it is important to treat AI as a tool rather than outsourcing everything to it.

Professor Bailey tells us about what supervisors can do to earn trust, why supervision and evaluation is important, and how everyone can make the most out of the process. For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee! Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher training courses Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

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 vary between subjects? How can teachers assigned to teach academic English figure out what to teach? Which activities from general English classes translate best to academic English classes? And asides from listening to lectures, what do university students need English for? Support the podcast by buying us a coffee For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website: www.TEFLtraininginstitute.com Sign up for our mailing list Find out more about Campus Talk Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

Professor Michael McCarthy joins me to talk about using corpora in language teaching. Mike tells us how teachers should use corpora when planning lessons, the advantages and disadvantages of showing corpora to students. We discuss how teachers can create their own corpora and how to use corpora to create better materials.

Professor Jonathan Newton joins me to discuss teaching listening skills. Does it make sense to talk about top-down and bottom-up approaches? How can we practice these in the classroom? And what are Jonathan’s top tips for improving students’ speaking skills?

Thom Kiddle joins me to talk about online teacher training courses. What makes them effective? What best practices are there for trainers? And what kinds of questions can teachers ask to help trainees reflect? Support the podcast by buying us a coffee For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website: www.TEFLtraininginstitute.com Sign up for our mailing list Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel