Teacher Talking Time

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help. This is a very special episode of Teacher Talking Time, in partnership with the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. This episode was created as part of the final assessment of MA course "The CEFR in Context: Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research" by Prof. Dr. Marije Michel and Dr. Audrey Rousse-Malpat. We at Learn YOUR English are thrilled to be a part of it coming to life. Episode Description: The CEFR is a useful tool for assessment and can be used to better align assessment across Europe. But is this what is actually happening? In this podcast episode, assessment and the CEFR in the Dutch school system will be discussed from the perspectives of experts in the field of research, secondary school teachers of English, and students studying to become teachers of English. Interviewers: Lize Hofman. Gerbrich Dijkstra, and Mark van der Wijk are currently doing the Educational Master track for English at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Guests on this episode: Prof. Dr. Rick de Graaff works at the University Utrecht and teaches Foreign Language Didactics and Bilingual Education. His field of expertise is effective foreign language education, second language didactics, early foreign language education, and the professional development of language teachers. He has previously researched how the CEFR can effectively be implemented in second language education. Drs. Alessandra Corda is the head of modern language undergraduate teacher training departments at the Hogeschool Amsterdam (University of Applied Sciences) and has worked in the language education field for the past 25 years. She has also researched how to effectively implement the CEFR in second language education and is very knowledgeable about the assessment of language learning in education. Niels Amperse teaches English at a secondary school in the Netherlands. He is still in the early stages of his teaching career and followed CEFR classes during his training to become a teacher. He is interested in the development of secondary school students and has a refreshing view of second language learning in the Dutch educational system. Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Free Business Foundations Training 2. Free Dogme ELT Training 3. Get a free teaching and business tip every week 4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 5. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help. Anthony Gaughan is a teacher and teacher-trainer with over 25 years of experience working in the corporate, state secondary, higher education, and private adult education sectors. He is a Cambridge English approved Assessor and Main Course Tutor for the CELTA initial teacher training qualification, as well as a Tutor for the DELTA Module 2 and the Trinity Diploma. Together with his then-colleague, Izzy Orde, Anthony first applied Dogme ELT principles to running CELTA courses in 2009, and has been advocating for simplifying initial teacher education ever since. See his blog "Teacher Training Unplugged." In this episode, Anthony dives into: how a Japanese balloon pushed him towards Dogme teaching versus teaching-like behaviours transforming CELTA training into unprescribed, dogmatic experiences why he was called irresponsible and dangerous at IATEFL training as a suspension of disbelief debunking myths about beginner students, beginner teachers, and new beginnings Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More on Anthony Gaughan: Follow on LinkedIn His Blog Hamburg School of English Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Join Our Weekly Newsletter Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Take the LYE Free 120-hour training on growing your teaching business in 5 days. Click here to enroll free. Want to talk about how to grow your business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help. Florencia Henshaw has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is now the Director of Advanced Spanish. She is an award-winning educator who has published and presented nationally and internationally on technology integration and research-based pedagogical practices. Dr. Henshaw is also the host of “Unpacking Language Pedagogy” (available as a podcast and YouTube channel), where she summarizes and discusses research articles, activities, terms, and various topics related to language teaching. Her co-authored book, "Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory goes to the Classroom," aims to help educators visualize how to put principles into action. In this episode, Florencia discusses: if people are born teachers classrooms as artificial environments why empathy is required for teachers to relinquish control in the learning process how we should prioritize learner perceptions and attitudes the backwardness of how most assessments are set up strategies to scaffold and increase the presence of target language how her new book helps teachers incorporate new SLA research into the classroom Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More from Dr. Henshaw: Her YouTube channel "Unpacking Language Pedagogy" Her website "Technology for Language Teaching and Learning" Her book "Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom" Follow her on Twitter: @Prof_F_Henshaw Follow her on LinkedIn Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Take our free 120-hour training on how to overcome common obstacles in your business Join Our Weekly Newsletter Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help. This is a very special episode of Teacher Talking Time, in partnership with the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. This episode was created as part of an MA course "The CEFR in Context: Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research" by Prof. Dr. Marije Michel and Dr. Audrey Rousse-Malpat. We at Learn YOUR English are thrilled to be a part of it coming to life. Episode Description: This episode of Moments Mediating Matters explores the influence of plurilingualism on the Dutch educational system, examines how the concept of mediation is presented in the Companion Volume, and further discusses how mediation can accompany not only teachers but also learners in their learning process. To do so, three guests with different levels of expertise were invited to converse on the influence of the CEFR, and more specifically, the concept of mediation in an increasingly plurilingual society. Episode created with thanks to Tessa Jutstra. Interviewers: Amarins Jager, Michelle Leegsma, and Laura Polman are currently doing the Educational Master track for English at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Guests on this episode: Prof. Piet van Avermaet is the head of the Centre for Diversity and Learning at the Linguistics department of Ghent University. His field of expertise is multilingualism and more specifically, how multilingualism can be applied in the classroom and how it can be a cause of social inequality in terms of inclusion and language assessment. Dr. Brian North is one of the co-authors of the CEFR and the Companion Volume. He is an expert in the field of foreign language learning, applied linguistics and intercultural communication, and coordinated the 1991 Symposium that recommended the CEFR. North has been involved with the work of the Council of Europe for a long time and developed the levels and descriptors of the CEFR. Prof. Enrica Piccardo is also co-author of the Companion Volume of the CEFR. She is a professor at the University of Toronto in the Languages and Literacies Education Program and Head of the Centre for Education Research in Languages and Literacies. Her work focuses on the acquisition and teaching of foreign languages, the structuring of curricula, and the role of multi/plurilingualism in education and she has been cooperating with the Council of Europe on the project of developing the Companion Volume Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Join Our Weekly Newsletter Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. How much lesson planning is required? Should I use a coursebook? Are teaching 1-1 or groups are the only options? How do I set up my business to be scalable? Mike, Leo, and Andrew kick off 2022 by examining the most common questions teachers going freelance ask. They also examine teacher profiles who have joined LYE's new Teacher Accelerator Program and what they have in common. If you're a teacher looking to escape precarity, reduce lesson planning, and achieve better work-life balance, this episode is for you. Welcome to 2022! Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Teacher Accelerator Program Join Our Mailing List Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike dive into fear. What is it? Why do we have it? What are the consequences of fear? Its benefits? And, of course, how do these apply to learning a language? As we start a new year, fear - embracing it, conquering it, coping with it - is once again on the to do list. Mike and Leo discuss three strategies for dealing with the fear holding back our potential. For this episode, we ask you: how do you handle fear in your life? If you are a learning a language, these Cult of Learning episodes are for you! Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Teach less and earn more in your teaching Our Blog post for this episode Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal Our Self-study Master Package Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. Mike, Andrew, and Leo sip some nog and reminisce on the year that was. From COVID to a corrective feedback series to interviews with amazing scholars, it was quite the year for the Teacher Talking Time Podcast. Here, the guys touch on the year's most listened to episodes, words of the year, how language has changed during the pandemic, which is ebb and which is flow, and predict what 2022 might have in store - including some work-life balance goals. Thanks for listening this year and stay tuned for many exciting things we have in store for 2022. Happy holidays from us at Learn YOUR English! Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Accelerator Program Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. Mike, Leo, and Andrew get back in the studio for a special, bizarro episode. In this "Ask Us Anything" show, the guys prepared secret questions for the others. The only rule? They can't be about teaching or education. Of course, they're not great at following rules. Touching on Nickelback, self doubt, being vulnerable, accepting or rejecting dinner invitations, Stephen King, pending life goals, long distance relationships - and much more - they invite you on a different type of journey. For a non-education episode, this is very educational. If you want to give your answer to the questions asked here, make a post in our teacher discussion forum. To ask us your "ask me anything" question, shoot us a DM on Instagram: @learnyourenglish Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike look at an important "technique" that is crucial for those who want to learn a language: noticing. What is noticing? How does it affect language learning? How do we notice language? Why is noticing important? More specifically, they go in-depth on how it works: 1. What noticing language means 2. Why noticing the gap between what you hear or read and what you can say is essential 3. How you should practice applying what you notice in your use of language If you are a learning a language, these Cult of Learning episodes are for you! Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Blog post for this episode Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $50/year Our Self-study Master Package Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. Jane Setter joins the show to talk accents, speech prosody, and her new book "Your Voice Speaks Volumes." Jane is Professor of Phonetics at The University of Reading, UK. In addition to her new book, she is also co-editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary and the Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Jane's research interests include speech prosody in children from atypical populations, teaching and learning English pronunciation, and features of the suprasegmental phonology of global varieties of English, such as Hong Kong and Malay speaker English. *there's some slight static from 5:00 - 12:00 In this episode, Jane dives into: the influences that pushed her into a career in phonology speech classes and how Margaret Thatcher learned to "unshrill" her voice being the first phonetician invited to speak at the IATEFL conference the why and how of (unconscious) linguistic judgement the significance of four seconds in speech recognition why television shows choose certain accents for certain roles why men can't make their voices sound sexy what it means to have a voice that doesn't represent who you are Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More on Jane Setter: Her book "Your Voice Speaks Volumes" The Cambridge Book of Phonetics Twitter: @janesetter YouTube: Jane Setter Email: [email protected] Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Many language learners get frustrated because, in their heads, they’re thinking they’re just "learning a language." Their goal is usually "to be able to speak the language they’re learning." But what does this actually mean? If you want to make progress, you really need to know right from the outset what it is that you’re trying to learn. S.M.A.R.T. Goals help with this. Mike and Leo discuss this 5-step process to achieving goals. Listen to this episode to learn: what is each step of the process how each step applies to you learning a language how you can put this into practice right away If you are a learning a language, these Cult of Learning episodes are for you! Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Blog post for this episode Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $50/year Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how. Chris Jones joins us to talk conversation, strategies, and speaking. Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been involved in English language teaching for over twenty five years and holds the Cambridge CTEFLA and DTEFLA qualifications alongside an MA and PhD from the University of Nottingham. Chris' main research interests are related to spoken language. He joins us to talk about that and his new book called "Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence." Specifically in this episode, he tackles: his early influences, including Ron Carter, Scott Thornbury, and Dave Willis his impetus for his new book "Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence" his writing process the difference between speaking and conversation the difference between conversation strategies and communication strategies reasons why conversation strategies are often neglected in teaching how teachers can help their students with improving their spoken communication More on Chris Jones: Twitter: @ELTResearch His talk to launch his new book Details on his new book "Conversation strategies and communicative competence" His University of Liverpool staff page For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] Producer's note: the internet was quite tired on the day of recording. While the interweb didn't put in its best effort, the humans involved sure did, and we hope all the great content in this episode comes through from Jewel, Meghana, and Dr. Pawlak. Dr. Miroslaw Pawlak shares his thoughts in our final episode of our series on corrective feedback. Dr. Pawlak is the Head of the Department of English Studies and part of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Poland at Adam Mickiewicz University. Additionally, he is the editor-in chief of the journals Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, and Konin Language Studies, and the editor-in chief of the book series Second Language Learning and Teaching (Springer). His areas of research include form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, pronunciation teaching, classroom interaction, study abroad, and a range of individual difference factors such as motivation, willingness to communicate, language learning strategies and boredom. His most recent research article “Corrective Feedback, Developmental Readiness, and Language Proficiency” can be seen in The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching. In this episode Dr. Pawlak tells us: how to increase teacher interest in the topic of corrective feedback (CF) how CF affects the willingness of learners to communicate if it's preferable to over correct or under correct what we can learn from studying developmental readiness the role CF plays in form-focused instruction in comparison to more prescribed learner performance approaches *This interview was conducted by Meghana Akavoor and Jewel Little. Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode For more about Dr. Pawlak: See his page from Adam Mickiewicz University His Handbook on Corrective Feedback His Google Scholar author page As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more on what we do at LYE: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Mike and Leo finalize our series on the three essentials of language learning. In part III, they briefly recap the first two of the three essentials - Exposure and Motivation - and introduce you to the last one of the tripartite - USE. They talk about why it is important to produce output (speaking and writing) and how it contributes to your language learning and development. More specifically, Leo and Mike talk about: why input (listening and reading) is important when learning a language why communication is essential to improving your language skills the role of interaction how taking risks with your language use is a good idea what types of activities you should avoid when learning If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! For more information on our podcast, click here or go to: learnyourenglish.net/podcast Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $50/year Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] In episode 7 of our series on corrective feedback, Dr. Shaofeng Li joins us. Dr. Li is a prominent scholar and award-winning researcher of second language acquisition, with a focus on corrective feedback. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Teacher Education at Florida State University. Prior to this, he was a senior lecturer in the department of Applied Language Studies at Auckland University. He has an extensive list of published works on areas such as corrective feedback, task-based language teaching/learning, cognitive variables of second language learning, second language learner beliefs & motivations, and much more. More recently, Dr. Li has a number of upcoming published works focusing more specifically on associations between anxiety, working memory and corrective feedback timing. In this episode, Dr. Li discusses: learner and teacher beliefs on corrective feedback (CF) how his own beliefs of CF have evolved over time how teachers often view CF differently than learners and they impact that can have on learning gains why teachers should take learner beliefs on CF into account cognitive variables affecting CF how CF fits into a Task-based Learning and Teaching (TBLT) model *This interview was conducted by Abdi Mohamed and Neal Power. Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode More from Dr. Shaofeng Li: See his: Academia page ResearchGate page Google Scholar author profile As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more on what we do at LYE: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. In part two of our three-part series on the "Essentials of Language Learning," Leo and Mike briefly recap the first of the three essentials - Exposure - and introduce you to the second one of the tripartite - Motivation. We will talk about what motivation is, how it works, different types of motivation and how you can use it to learn English. Specifically, they wonder: what is motivation? common misconceptions about motivation different types of motivation how to get motivated and take action If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! Download the FREE Learn YOUR English Personalized Habit Tracker: Click here or go to: learnyourenglish.net/podcast Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] This is episode 6 of our corrective feedback series, featuring Dr. Neomy Storch. Dr. Storch is an Associate Professor of applied linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She teaches a range of ESL and Applied Linguistics subjects and convenes the ESL program. She is world renowned for her work on second language acquisition, collaborative writing, and academic writing. She has over 100 scholarly works published on these topics, including her 2013 book "Collaborative Writing in L2 Classrooms" and a 2016 co-authored book called "Written Corrective Feedback for L2 Development." In this episode, Dr. Storch shares: the drawbacks of looking at corrective feedback research in a vacuum examples of explicit and implicit feedback the differences between collaborative and cooperative writing the differences between feedback and uptake her optimism about the future of collaborative writing *This interview was conducted by Zahra Azizi and Shrouk Abdelgafar Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode More from Dr. Neomy Storch: Her page at the University of Melbourne As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more on what we do at LYE: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike bring you a brand new mini-series called "The Three Essentials of Language Learning." We will talk about what really helps folks out there learn a language - do you need a teacher? Do you need to be motivated? Should you listen to a lot of podcasts in the language you are trying to learn? What are the three essentials of learning a foreign language? The answer to these questions you will find in this new series of the Cult of Learning podcast. In Part 1, they tackle the "first essential": exposure. When learning a foreign language, it is important to develop habits, but also to create an effective learning environment - not only inside the classroom but outside the classroom. This episode will help you do that, and, specifically, they discuss: what exposure is and isn't how learners can expose themselves to language what kind of reading or listening you should do if you're a student is "less is more" or "more is more" more appropriate? If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! Download the FREE Learn YOUR English Personalized Habit Tracker: Click here or go to: learnyourenglish.net/podcast Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] This is episode 5 in our series, featuring Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo. Dr. Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo is the director of the research group Language in speech - a multidisciplinary group at the University of the Basque country in Spain. The group focuses on the acquisition of English as a foreign language. Dr. Mayo has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Iowa and is the director of the MA program Language Acquisition in MultiLingual Settings as well as the head of the department of English and German studies at the university of the Basque Country. Her publications span the area of second and third language acquisition of English, morphosyntax, and the study of conversational interaction in EFL. She is also the editor of journal Language Teaching Research. In this episode, Dr. García Mayo discusses: the Spanish EFL context recent studies revolving around language learning and the high school context in Spain the arguments for and against self-repair, recast, and implicit & explicit feedback why there is such a research gap with children teacher training and corrective feedback the role of research - and researchers - in classroom application *This interview was conducted by Jean Charlebois and Sarah Langridge Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode More from Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo: The Language and Speech Laboratory Her latest volumes include: Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights Recent Perspectives on Task-based Language Learning and Teaching Working Collaboratively in Second/Foreign Language Learning As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more on what we do at LYE: Join Our Mailing List Our Teacher Development Membership Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] This is episode 4 in our series, featuring Dr. Yucel Yilmaz. Dr. Yilmaz is a professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He teaches and researches several areas in second language acquisition, with a focus on how to offer effective (negative) feedback to language learners in both technology-mediated and in-person environments. He is also interested in the role of cognitive individual differences in the effectiveness of corrective feedback. In this episode, Dr. Yilmaz discusses: the interactionist approach explicit correction versus recast why direct feedback being more effective needs to be taken with a grain of salt computer versus face-to-face mediated feedback how to implement oral and written feedback how teachers can learn about corrective feedback research and apply it to their own contexts *This interview was conducted by Heather Shugart, Aria Rubinoff, and Fereshteh Khaffai Azar. Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode More from Dr. Yilmaz: Visit the Instructed SLA Lab at Indiana University Visit his portfolio As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more on what we do at LYE: Join Our Mailing List Our Teacher Development Membership Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to win a free subscription to habit tracking app Habitica? 1. Review Teacher Talking Time in Apple Podcasts or on Google 2. Send us a screenshot of your review via Instagram: @learnyourenglish 3. That's it! Many thanks to our friends at Habitica for their help with today's episode. Definitely check them out if you're looking for cool ways to track your habits. CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike continue our mini series “What are Habits and the Science Behind Them.” In the third and final installment of this mini series, they discuss: five benefits of habit tracking what habits are worth tracking how to respond when our habits and consistency breaks down methods for tracking habits and actually being consistent with it how to get a free subscription to tracking app Habitica! If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! Download the FREE Learn YOUR English Personalized Habit Tracker: Click here or go to: learnyourenglish.net/podcast Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Our School of Learning for Teachers & Students - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] Dr. Rebecca Adams joins us for episode 3. Dr. Adams is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Memphis, USA. She is an applied linguist with interests in instructed second language learning. Her research work focuses on peer communication in second language classrooms, peer corrective feedback in peer interaction and learning, second language task complexity in peer interactions, and focus on form. In this episode, Dr. Adams highlights: the benefits of peer feedback when compared to teacher-provided feedback how to establish a conducive classroom environment for peer feedback to be most effective types of corrective feedback and their effectiveness whether students are actually hesitant to provide feedback to their peers if teachers should wait for peer feedback to occur naturally or if providing students with training is beneficial the connection between task-based language teaching and peer corrective feedback *This interview was conducted by Marcel Zhang and Leo Liu. Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton University and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode For more on Dr. Adams: See her website Her book "Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning" Her book "Teaching through Peer Interaction" Are you a language teacher and interested in taking part in her new study on peer interaction? Click here. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Teacher Development Membership Join Our Mailing List Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] This is episode 2 in our series. In this episode, Dr. Hossein Nassaji joins the program to discuss corrective feedback. Dr. Hossein is an award-winning scholar and Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. He has authored over 100 articles and many books. His forthcoming handbook on corrective feedback, The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching with Eva Kartchava, is a comprehensive volume that discusses current issues and perspectives on corrective feedback and their applications to second language teaching and learning. Specifically in this episode, Dr. Nassaji tells us about: the roles corrective feedback plays in language learning how culture impacts feedback effectiveness the debate between immediate and delayed feedback written vs oral feedback and the efficacy of written feedback the what, when, why, and if of explicit & implicit feedback how teachers can learn about and implement corrective feedback in their classes *This interview was conducted by Kelsey Ulrich-Verslycken and Lana Haj Hamid Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode More from Dr. Nassaji: His website Some of his prominent books: Corrective Feedback in Second Language Teaching and Learning: Research, Theory, Applications, Implication The Interactional Feedback Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning: Linking Theory, Research, and Practice Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms: Integrating Form-Focused Instruction in Communicative Context The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Teacher Development Membership Join Our Mailing List Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: [email protected] This is the introductory episode to our series on Corrective Feedback. Here, we invite Dr. Eva Kartchava - Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University, Canada - and Dr. Hossein Nassaji - Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, Canada - to help kick off the series. In this episode, Dr. Kartchava and Dr. Nassaji help elucidate many questions the series aims to answer, some of which are: what is corrective feedback? how do you give CF? what is the purpose of CF? how many different types of CF are there? when should we provide CF? Partnership with Carleton University: Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative. For more information on this episode, this project, and those involved: view Carleton and Dr. Kartchava's website on Corrective Feedback view the LYE blog post on this episode Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Teacher Development Membership Join Our Mailing List Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike continue our mini series “What are Habits and the Science Behind Them.” In the second installment, they discuss: how long it takes to adopt a new habit the story behind that magic number & where it came from if that number is real or fabricated a study dedicated to discovering just how habits are formed what we can learn from all of this If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Our School of Learning for Teachers & Students - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Scott Thornbury joins Leo, Mike, and Andrew in studio. Scott has taught and trained in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand. Until recently he taught an online MA TESOL program for The New School in New York. His writing credits include several award-winning books for teachers on language and methodology. He is also the series editor for the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers, and a trustee of the Hands Up Project, which promotes drama activities in English for children in under-resourced regions of the Arab world. At present, he is working for the Mosaik Foundation, training teachers of refugees in the Middle East in how to integrate communicative activities into their online classes. We delve into Scott's career journey, and he discusses: his career beginnings his early influences and the "mother goose approach" a paradigm shift away from drills and accuracy to a fluency-based, communicative approach views on teacher development his writing process and how nothing on the page in front of you is alright when there's a lot behind you Dogme and Leo Van Lier's influence on him For more on Scott Thornbury: His website is www.scottthornbury.com He tweets at @thornburyscott His highly acclaimed blog https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/ Mosaik Foundation Hands Up Project For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Teacher Development Membership Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses for Teachers Our Sandbox of Lessons and Lesson Ideas Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. In the first COL episode of 2021, Leo and Mike introduce our new mini series on habits called “What are Habits and the Science Behind Them.” In the first episode, they talk about maintaining good habits. Why are they so hard to start and seemingly impossible to keep? Our 3-part series will explore this, how it connects to learning, and much more. In part one, Mike and Leo tackle: why most people fail to create good habits how long it takes to form a new habit a technique you can use to stick to a good habit and how to track your habits effectively If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time Use our LYE Discount on your Next Creative Project. Get your First Month Free when you: Start a Podcast with Podbean Publish an Online Course with Thinkific

To kick off 2021, Mike, Leo, and Andrew hold Teacher Talking Time’s first ever live episode to commemorate two years of podcasting with Learn YOUR English. They invite members of the LYE community to share their experiences with podcasts and, specifically, how they use them to develop as educators. This episode was also broadcast live on the LYE Youtube channel, and in the first episode of 2021, they guys along with their guests discuss: why and how Teacher Talking Time came to fruition using podcasting as a tool for CPD using podcasting as an asset for classroom assessment Leo’s Master’s dissertation on podcasting in ELT We also hear from some of our listeners on how they use podcasts for their development. We also want to give a shoutout to other ELT Podcasts that inspire us. A lot of these influenced us in our careers and in the development of our show. Please check them out: TEFLology Tefl Training Institute TEFL Commute SLB Coop Podcast Language Testing Bytes For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. In the final Cult of Learning episode of 2020, Leo, Mike, and Andrew share their words of the year. From Zoom Fatigue to Cancel Culture to Social Distancing and Quarantine, our vocabularies grew enormously over the past 12 months. What words were the most impactful this year? What relevance do they have? How did they come about? The guys chat about this, reflect on living through a pandemic, and discuss how this year has taught us all a lot about learning. If you are a learning a language, these episodes are for you! Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode for more information. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English Skills with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $5 Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time Use our LYE Discount on your Next Creative Project. Get your First Month Free when you: Start a Podcast with Podbean Publish an Online Course with Thinkific

Mike, Leo, and Andrew sit down and reflect on the year that was in 2020. In a year unlike any other in our lifetime, many things happened. They discuss: takeaways from the top 5 most listened to Teacher Talking Time episodes of the year lessons learned in 2020 and reflecting on their 2019 goals what goal setting for next year looks like staring down a pandemic For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Mike, Leo, and Andrew all cram into the digital studio for the first ever Cult of Learning episode with all three musketeers. The guys talk about conversations, why they can be difficult, reasons for them breaking down, and strategies to use to increase your conversation skills. They also present a technique they've designed called the "4 A's: Mastering the Art of Conversation." The 4 A's are: ask answer add ask If you're looking for tips to improve your English conversation skills, this is the episode for you. Listen to the full episode for examples, analysis, how to use the A's - and a few stories, jokes, and humour along the way. If you'd like to take your English conversation skills to the next level, check out our online lesson on just this topic. Also, check out our blog post for more information on today's episode. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English Skills with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time Use our LYE Discount on your Next Creative Project. Get your First Month Free when you: Start a Podcast with Podbean Publish an Online Course with Thinkific

Leo invites Luke Meddings into the digital studio. Luke is a teacher, trainer, and author with over 30 years in the ELT industry. In 2009 he co-authored "Teaching Unplugged" with Scott Thornbury, a book that represented a revolution in English Language Instruction. In 2020, Luke founded "The Context," which helps students, teachers, and institutions in the industry. Luke reflects on the Dogme movement, why it was viewed as controversial, where it is now, and if he still views it as contentious. In much more detail, he tells us: his teaching beginnings and why it led him to a "teaching unplugged" approach (3:00) the first school he started - "Explore Your English" - and why it was idealistic (18:00) the genesis of Dogme and meeting Scott Thornbury (25:00) why presenting on Dogme at conferences was met with both excitement and contempt (40:00) the writing of "Teaching Unplugged" and why they didn't use the word "Dogme" (44:00) the 10 principles of Dogme and why they chose the 3 they did for their movement (55:00) his thoughts on progressive education and how we still need to do better (1:02:00) For more on Luke Meddings: Follow him: @LukeMeddings Visit his website Follow The Context on Instagram: @thecontext_edu Get your copy of Teaching Unplugged For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Mike and Leo discuss "visualization" and how it can help you become a better language learner. Visualization or "mental imagery" is is commonly used by many top performers, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Phelps, and athletes when preparing themselves for a competition, a race, or a match. How does this apply to learning a language? Mike and Leo talk about: how important the mind is in language performance famous athletes who use this technique how we visualize all the time even if we don't do it on purpose why it's important to have realistic goals in your language learning strategies you can use to visualize your "future L2 self" Check out our website for more information on today's episode. Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English Skills with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $5/month Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time Use our LYE Discount on your Next Creative Project. Get your First Month Free when you: Start a Podcast with Podbean Publish an Online Course with Thinkific

Leo and Mike chat with Dr. Masatoshi Sato about academic research, second language teaching, and why a lack of implementation still exists between research and classroom pedagogy. Dr. Sato (PhD: McGill University) is a Professor in the Department of English at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chilé. He currently teaches pre-service and in-service English teachers in Chile. His research agenda is to conduct theoretical and practical research in order to provide practitioners with evidence-based pedagogy. In particular, he has conducted research focusing on peer interaction, corrective feedback, learner psychology, teacher psychology, and research-pedagogy dialogue. He recently published a paper titled "Do Teachers Care about Research? The Research-Pedagogy Dialogue" which is the focus of this episode. *Note: the paper is free to read. Dr. Sato tells us: how he became a researcher (2:00) misconceptions on the purpose of second language research (12:00) what the "research-pedagogy" dialogue is and why it's important (18:00) why he believes teachers usually don't interact with research (30:00) what researchers need to do for their work to be more useful to teachers (34:00) why motivation cannot be the cause of learning (47:00) his study analyzing motivation and the "ideal self system" and its link to second language learning (52:00) For more on Dr. Sato: Follow him: @masatoshi_sato Read his research For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of the Learn YOUR English Learner Membership Community. In this episode, Andrew joins Leo in studio and they discuss reasons for learning a new language, both good and bad. In the last segment, the guys talk about motivation vs discipline, and how to make language learning a habit and not a chore. Why do you learn new languages? What habits have you developed along the way? Resources mentioned in this episode: Ted Talk - 4 Reasons to Learn a Language James Clear - Atomic Habits The Michelle Obama Podcast LYE Quick Fix LYE YouTube Channel Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our School of Learning for Students - only $5 Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Andrew sits down with Ana-Marija Petrunic to discuss her work in post-conflict Kosovo in the late 1990's, how language & identity factor into teaching, and if there is such a thing as neutrality in education. Ana-Marija spent years in post-war Kosovo as part of a project working towards reconstructing an education system in the ethnically diverse region. Ana-Marija is the Chair of the School of ESL at Toronto’s George Brown College. Previous to that, she spent more than a decade with the University of Calgary, serving roles as instructor, professional development advisor, and in education management. She is continuing her academic path with doctoral studies in the School of Management at the University of Bath. In this episode, Ana-Marija delves into: how her feeling of being "suspended in identity" led her to a career in ELT her work in Kosovo - what it was, why she went, and how it happened the challenges of re-constructing education in a post-war region how identity impacts language learning and teaching why she believes neutrality does not exist in education why teachers need to embrace tension and discomfort in their classrooms, and have tough, meaningful, and impactful discussions with their students that will impart social change For more information on Ana-Marija: Follow her: @ampetrun Read her thesis from the University of Calgary For more information on this episode, see our blog post on our website. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from our listeners. If you enjoy our work, consider contributing to our tip jar As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of the Learn YOUR English Learner Membership Community. In episode 5, Leo and Mike complete our mini series on setting clear language goals. The series looks at the 7 "Cs" of goal setting. This episode looks at the last two Cs: The Sixth C: Character A good CHARACTER to guide us and keep us on a proper course. The Seventh C: Capacity A capacity to enjoy the PROCESS along the way Playing the long game For each, they pose these questions: What are they? How do they help us learn? Why are they important? The LYE School of Learning: If you would like to join our School of Learning, it’s only $5 one time. Sign up and start learning today! Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Thank you for listening! If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our School of Learning for Students - only $5 Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

In Teacher Talking Time’s first round-table episode, we focus on the topic of teaching and developing listening skills. Leo and Andrew are joined by Marc Jones and Chiara Bruzzano, both researchers on the topic of listening. Marc and Chiara help us parse what current research and findings on listening says, and discuss what strategies and approaches we as teachers can utilize in our classes to best help our students. This episode is divided into 3 sections: 1. The Differences between teaching, practicing, and testing listening (3:20) 2. Analyzing the standard approach to teaching listening (34:00) 3. Looking at what can be improved and suggestions of how to go about it. (1:02:00) Three questions were used to help us define this round table discussion: 1. Is there a problem that our industry faces that you would like to address? 2. How is this topic relevant to teachers? 3. What outcomes do we expect to achieve at the end of this round table? *This episode works in conjunction with the LYE Course "Teaching Listening Made Easy." Follow Chiara: Twitter: @chiara_bruzzano View her website: ETprofessional Read her work Chiara is also the founder of LanguagEd, a group of teachers, researchers and graphic designers producing professional development courses for teachers. Follow Marc: Twitter: @marcjonestyo View his websites: Marcjones.tokyo and getgreatenglish.com Read his most recent article *For anyone interested in learning more about teaching listening, listen to the end of the episode for a discount code for the LYE course “Teaching Listening Made Easy.” For more information on this episode, see our blog post on our website. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from our listeners. If you enjoy our work, consider contributing to our tip jar As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of the Learn YOUR English Learner Membership Community. In episode 4, Mike and Leo continue our podcast series on Setting Clear Goals in Language Learning. In this series, we discuss the 7 Cs of Goal Setting. In Part I, we talked about the first two: conception and confidence. In this episode, we talk about the next 3 Cs: Concentration, Consistency, and Commitment: What are they? How do they help us learn? Why are they important? Mike and Leo also talk about very exciting announcements for Learn YOUR English: A. Free E-book for Students called "The 3 Myths of Learning" - download for free now! B. The LYE School of Learning - learn for only $5 for your whole life! C. LYE Quick Fixes: Improve one part of your language quickly and effectively. The LYE School of Learning: If you would like to join our School of Learning, it’s only $5 one time. Sign up and start learning today! Download our E-book for FREE on our website. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Thank you for listening! If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our School of Learning for Students - only $5 Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

In episode 26, Andrew invites Jason Anderson into the studio. Jason is a teacher educator, educational consultant, award-winning author and researcher, working in both language teaching and mainstream education. He has published research on aspects of language teaching, multilingualism, teacher reflection, lesson planning and teacher education. His main interests include teaching methodology, translanguaging and the contextual challenges of primary and secondary teachers working in low- and middle-income contexts, where he has spent much of his career as a teacher educator. He is a proponent for the use of multiple frameworks in language classrooms - "all of these approaches do and can work." In 2016, he published "A Potted History of PPP" in which he outlines the history of the framework and argues that research is not simply against it, as many believe. Jason also has designed a new framework called "The TATE Model." In this episode, Jason discusses: His recent project in India (4:00) The history of the PPP Framework (11:00) Why the Zone of Proximal Development is misunderstood in second language acquisition (19:00) Lexis, Grammar, the lexical approach and a synthetic syllabus (22:00) If TBLT is appropriate in developing world contexts (28:00) What it means for an approach "to work" (36:00) Creating appropriate outcome measures (39:30) Research and practice together in a reflective model of teacher education (50:00) The TATE model (57:30) *For links to the resources mentioned in this interview, see our blog post about this episode on our website. Follow Jason: Twitter: @jasonelt Website: jasonanderson.org.uk Read his work Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from our listeners. If you enjoy our work, consider contributing to our tip jar As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of the Learn YOUR English Learner Membership Community. In episode 3, Mike and Leo introduce our podcast series on Setting Clear Goals in Language Learning. In this series, we will discuss the 7 Cs of Goal Setting. In this episode, we talk about the first 2 Cs: 1. Conception: The first condition to success is establishing a clear conception of what we want to achieve or accomplish. What does that mean? What steps do we need to take to do that? 2. Confidence The second step is developing confidence. What kind of confidence? How do we overcome challenges? What's the difference between confidence and courage? We cover this and more in Part 1 of our series on setting clear language goals. Send us a message and let us know how you plan for success. For LYE Members: All of our members will be discussing this episode in our classes this month and performing learning activities to achieve their language goals. Become a member now. Thank you for listening! If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

In episode 25, Mike and Leo chat with the great Jane Willis. Jane started her career teaching French in Ghana and has since worked extensively overseas (Cyprus, Iran, and Singapore) as an English teacher and trainer. She began writing in Iran with Teaching English Through English, for local teachers who found it difficult speaking English in their classes. She has run teacher development courses and taken part in ELT consultancies in many countries, including China, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Middle East, South America, and Europe. She especially enjoys working with teachers of Foreign Languages who want to adopt a task-based approach Jane recently completed and published "Winning the Grammar Wars – what grammar really is and how we use it" - a book her late husband Dave Willis started - which describes English in a holistic way and provides a broad overview for teachers, parents, and educators. In this episode, Jane delves into all things teaching, including: Her early beginnings in teaching (4:00) One of her first books "Teaching English through English" (10:00) The COBUILD syllabus The restrictions course books put on training the next generation of teachers (26:00) Why Task-based Language Teaching (38:30) Why TBLT isn't PPP upside down (53:30) TBLT with beginners (56:30) If TBLT is appropriate for all teachers (1:01:30) The latest Willis book "Winning the Grammar Wars" (1:07:30) What an input-rich course would look like (1:33:00) Raising Bilingual Children (1:39:00) Contact Jane Willis: Via her website Her list of works from her personal website Read "Winning the Grammar Wars," which Jane finished after Dave's passing. See many more resources referenced in this episode on our website. If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of the Learn YOUR English Learner Membership Community. In episode two, Mike and Leo talk about myths around learning. There are many beliefs about how people learn in the 21st Century - especially about how people learn languages - that are not actually true. The guys talk about three of them: Myth 1: We can only learn in the classroom Myth 2: We can only learn from a textbook Myth 3: We can only learn with a teacher At the end of the first segment, Mike and Leo assign a reflection task. Listen for that and let us know your answers! For LYE Members: All of our members will be discussing this episode in our classes this month and performing learning activities to achieve their language goals. If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. Thank you for listening! If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

In episode 24, Leo welcomes Dr. Marije Michel to the studio. Dr. Michel has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Amsterdam and is an associate professor and Chair of Language Learning at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She conducts research into language learning processes in a second language, foreign language didactics, and multilingualism in educational contexts. In this episode, Dr. Michel discusses the second language learning process, the role of input, and her most recent research on alignment. Dr. Michel focuses on: Learning by doing (11:00) The role of input (17:00) The role of grammar instruction and repetition in task-based approaches (24:00) CAF - Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency (32:00) Training students to give meaningful peer feedback (41:00) An important refugee project called The English Academy for Newcomers (45:00) Alignment - what it is, how it works, and how teachers can incorporate it (52:00) Follow Dr. Michel: Twitter: @marijemichel Read her work If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

In episode 23, Mike and Leo invite Fernando Rosell-Aguilar into the virtual studio. Fernando is an author, course designer, and currently delivers lectures at Coventry University in the UK. He is pursuing a Pd.D. in Computer-Assisted Language Learning from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), and his research interests are online learning, with an emphasis on the integration of technologies into teaching and learning. In the times of COVID-19, we are truly grateful for Fernando's insights and expertise into online teaching. In this episode, he discusses: the main differences between online and face-to-face teaching practices to use and avoid in online teaching if the mass move to teaching online will re-shape traditional education what he believes the term "supplementary" means in education the myth that a teacher is required for learning how much teaching should be done online techniques teachers can use to improve their online teaching Follow Fernando: Twitter: @FRosellAguilar LinkedIn And read his research If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

/CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are passionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of the Learn YOUR English Learner Membership Community. In Teacher Talking Time’s first episode for learners, Mike and Leo introduce the Cult of Learning podcast, discuss why it’s called “The Cult of Learning,” what “Learn YOUR English” really means, and what we hope to accomplish by helping people learn the language that’s important to them. This episode is all about learning. Mike and Leo go over the three most important rules for learning: Effectiveness (the what) Adherence (the why) Efficiency (the how) They also talk about how languages are not taught but learned, discuss several common myths about language learning, and why you shouldn’t say “sayonara” in Japanese. If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. Thank you for listening! If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Memberships Our Website Join our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

*If you're interested in attending the Learn YOUR English webinar on March 22, 2020, please RSVP here. We'll be talking Language Awareness & Knowledge! It's free for all ELT professionals. In episode 22, Leo pulls up a chair with Vinicius Nobre. Vinicius, a Brazilian native, has been teaching English since 1995, has worked as an instructor, trainer, coordinator, writer, and is currently the head of Troika, an ELT consultancy based out of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Vinicius has also written two methodology books “Getting into Teacher Education: a handbook” and “Teaching English Today: Contexts and Objectives.” He served as the president of the biggest association of English Language Teachers in South America, BRAZ-TESOL, where he still works as a member of the Advisory Board. In this episode, Vinicius talks about: learner motivation, and the role teachers play - or don’t play - in it the deficiencies in teacher training courses textbooks, the intention behind how they are written, and why they shouldn’t be used as recipes the ELT context in Brazil, including the hurdles to reaching proficiency, and why the English language rarely has any tangible benefits for Brazilians the challenges to professionalizing ELT in Brazil Contact Vinicius or Troika: @vinnienobre; @troika.br Website: Troika If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Our Online Courses Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

In episode 21, Leo chats with Neil McMillan. Neil is an experienced teacher, teacher-trainer, writer, and translator. He holds a Diploma in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as a Ph.D in literature from the University of Glasgow, and has over 15 years’ classroom experience working with adults, teenagers, and children from all over the world. Neil is also the president of the Cooperative de Serveis Linguistics de Barcelona, a forward-thinking language cooperative based in Barcelona, Spain, and is an active advocate of Task-based Language Teaching. In this episode, Neil talks about: the gap between standardized tests and necessary performative tasks, especially in the case of immigration; what SLB is, how it works, and how teachers elsewhere can form a cooperative; if ELT is a genuine career given the lack of regulation in the industry; TBLT myths, SLB's TBLT course, and how teachers can implement tasks from coursebooks; EAP contexts and how understanding a professor's expectations is integral before creating language curriculum. Contact Neil or SLB: Twitter: @neil_mcm; @SLBCoop Website: Cooperative de Serveis Linguistics de Barcelona Follow "The SLB Podcast" in any podcast app, or stream on their website. Read Neil's blog "Animalising ELT" If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Website Our Online Store Our catalog of online courses on Thinkific Join our Mailing List And don't forget to follow us online: Instagram: @learnyourenglish/@teachertalkingtimepodcast Twitter: @LYEnetwork/@TTTthepodcast Facebook: Learn Your English Network Or shoot us an email: [email protected]

To kick off 2020, Leo, Mike, and Andrew take a light and casual look at the year that was. In their first roundtable episode in a while, the boys reflect on the past 12 months - and decade - and look forward to 2020. Grab a drink, go for a walk, or enhance your commute by listening to them failing to stay on topic, wandering deep into tangents, and debating the pronunciation of "vice versa." This episode has 4 segments: 1. A review of the top 5 most-downloaded Teacher Talking Time episodes of 2019 (2:30). 2. A discussion on 3 types of change and how it applies to them (25:30). 3. What worked and didn't work in our classrooms this year and sharing their "formidable" resolutions for 2020 (59:00). 4. The Lightning Round: the boys share their goals for the year, their favourite movies of the past year, and the people who influence them every year (1:12:00). At the end of the episode, the guys talk about LYE's new initiatives for 2020, including: Monthly Teacher Talking Time Webinars New podcast episodes for Learners LYE Professional Memberships More autonomous CPD options If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Website Our Online Store Our catalog of online courses on Thinkific Join our Mailing List And follow us online: Instagram: @learnyourenglish Twitter: @LYEnetwork Facebook: Learn Your English Network Or shoot us an email: [email protected]

In this episode, Andrew sits down with Michigan State University Associate Professor Dr. Paula Winke. Dr. Winke is a leading researcher on foreign and second language testing. At MSU, she researches if tests are valid, if tests measure what they should, methods for assessment, and differences among learners that affect assessment outcomes. She co-directs the Second Language Studies Eye-tracking Lab at MSU, and gave a plenary talk at the 2019 Task-based Language Teaching Conference in Ottawa, Canada called "We Need to Align Our Classroom Tasks with ACTFL & CEFR Can-Do Descriptors so that Our TBLT Programs are Chock-full of Proficiency Indicators." In this episode, Dr. Winke provides insight on: what proficiency is, the models usually used to measure it, and what problems exist in that model; how proficiency progresses vertically, horizontally, and spherically, and questions why we usually only gauge progress on a vertical scale; how programs can evaluate if they are assessing accurately; why student reflection and self-assessment is crucial; the problem with measuring proficiency across different program levels; how course grades do not correlate to proficiency and that most assessments don't test what is being learned; ACTFL and CEFR scales and how tasks can be great assessment tools. *For further explanations of how language grows - or how we think it grows - check out our blog post for this episode. Dr. Winke generously provided more insight after the recording of this episode. More About Dr. Winke: Check out her website here See her list of publications here Contact her: [email protected] As always, thank you for listening. If you like the show, consider subscribing on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Podcasts, and sharing it with a friend. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected] If you like the show, we have a Tip Jar on our website for people looking to help with the creation of our show. For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Website Our Online Store Our catalog of online courses on Thinkific Join our Mailing List And follow us online: Instagram: @learnyourenglish Twitter: @LYEnetwork Facebook: Learn Your English Network Or shoot us an email: [email protected]