Teacher Talking Time: The Learn YOUR English Podcast

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your goals for your teaching business.  Native speaker or non-native speaker? Monolingual or plurilingual? Why do we have a binary bias in modern society? These are some of the questions we tackled with Dr. Angelica Galante.  Dr. Angelica Galante is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education and Applied Linguistics, and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University. As the Director of the Plurilingual Lab, Dr. Galante conducts studies with language learners, teachers and educational leaders in the areas of plurilingual education, language teaching and learning, linguistic discrimination and justice, teacher education, and curriculum design. She speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish, and a bit of French and Italian. In our conversation, Dr. Galante talks about: Linguistic and Cultural Discrimination Strategies to Combat Prejudice in Education Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence Navigating Binary Bias in Language Discussions Exploring Common Ground in Controversial Topics The Role of Language in Identity and Mental Health Practical Applications of Plurilingualism in Education Balancing Plurilingualism and Language Acquisition Challenges and Facilitators of Plurilingualism For more from Angelica Galante: 1. Her professional page 2. McGill's Plurilingual Lab 3. Her publications  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Book a free 1:1 chat with us to strategize your teaching business.  2. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 3. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  4. Download our free guides for teacherpreneurs. 

Discover why some educators thrive in entrepreneurship while others falter. Unpack the seven Cs of teacherpreneur success, focusing on confidence as a skill and the crucial step of strategizing goals. Learn the importance of consistency and the power of emotional commitment in balancing health and business. Explore ways to find clients beyond social media and the significance of embracing your self-identity in teaching ventures. Join a supportive community as you navigate your path to success!

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Black Friday 2024: 50% off CPD (click here).  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   If you use vocabulary and grammar tests, you don't teach communicatively.  Audrey Rousse-Malpat tells us why.  Audrey Rousse-Malpat is an assistant professor in second language acquisition at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is also an entrepreneur and leads a teacher training company called Project Frans specializing in usage-based pedagogies for French as second language. She hosts the "Je suis #profdeFLE" ("I am a French language teacher") podcast.  Her research focuses on the AIM method: the Accelerative Integrated Method. In our conversation, she argues why it's a method education should adopt. In our conversation, Audrey talks about: thinking like a scientist schools as factories AIM (Accelerative Integrated Method) and how it works feeling like the Marry Poppins of error correction  structure-based teaching vs Dynamic usage why teachers need to relinquish control what went wrong with the communicative approach tips for implementing AIM multilingual approaches in higher education  For more from Audrey Rousse-Malpat: 1. Project Frans  2. Connect on LinkedIn 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: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Book a free 1:1 chat to strategize your teaching business.  2. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 3. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  4. Download our free guides for teacherpreneurs. 

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   Education is designed around focusing on the learner first and the teacher as a medium to support the learner. Sarah Mercer tells us why this leads to unhealthy teachers.  Sarah Mercer is a Professor of foreign language teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include all aspects of the psychology surrounding the foreign language learning experience. She is co-editor of Multilingual Matters’ Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching book series, currently vice-president of IAPLL, and ambassador for IATEFL. In this episode, Sarah expounds on: why connecting with learners is fundamental cell phone addiction and what we CAN'T do about it re-framing what "student-led" means defining "engagement" and pedagogical caring students faking engagement out of respect for their teacher burnout and stress are the result of the systemic element of teacher well-being For more from Sarah Mercer: 1. Visit her website 2. Read her publications  3. Her handbook "Teacher Wellbeing" 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: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Book a free 1:1 chat to strategize your teaching business.  2. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 3. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  4. Download our free guides for teacherpreneurs. 

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   ELT is full of disasters, including the destruction of the communicative approach. Dr. Enrica Piccardo tells us why.  Dr. Piccardo is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research spans language teaching approaches/curricula, multi/plurilingualism, creativity and complexity in language education. She recently published The Action-oriented Approach. A Dynamic Vision of Language Education 2019) Bristol: Multilingual Matters, co-authored with Brian North. In this episode, Dr. Piccardo discusses:  leveraging the messiness of learning how Headway destroyed the communicative approach multiple disasters in ELT: the separation of languages, the native speaker model, organizing curriculum around grammar, and others how we're still teaching in a grammatical way because it's easier what mediation is, its role in learning, and its 3 types updating the CEFR to include mediation  the link between mediation and plurilingualism the action-oriented approach and its benefits why teachers need to delegate learning For more from Dr. Enrica Piccardo: 1. Check out her new book here.  2. Her University of Toronto profile 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: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Book a free 1:1 chat to strategize your teaching business.  2. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 3. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  4. Download our free guides for teacherpreneurs. 

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   What do toad venom, the 5 stages of grief, and precarity all have in common? Andrew, Leo, and Mike explain.  Sustainability in the ELT industry as a teacher is pretty simple: 1. It is precarious 2. We all need to earn more money 3. It's unlikely to do that by having just one job. In this episode, we discuss strategies to earn more by creating your own offer. Specifically, we dive into: the 5 stages of grief pertaining to precarity two paths teachers have: stay in ELT or move on why earning more money is a requisite to stay in the industry how to create a compelling offer that will actually sell why focusing on lesson frequency is restricting not creating solutions to problems no one cares about  toad venom and how you can apply it to your teaching business 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: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Book a free 1:1 chat to strategize your teaching business.  2. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 3. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  4. Download our free guides for teacherpreneurs. 

Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   Want to move faster? Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business.  ELT provides the wrong input: language as it should be spoken not as it is spoken. This is wrong and Sheila Thorn gives us another way.  Sheila Thorn is a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer whose niche focuses on teaching listening. She founded The Listening Business in 1998 and is the author of countless seminal books that have moved our industry forward. She has recently embarked on a new career as an artist, specialising in portraits of people and animals. Her latest publication, "Integrating Authentic Listening into the Language Classroom" is a must-read.  In this episode, Sheila discusses:  ELT having the wrong input  coursebooks as impoverished language learners being scared of real language  how teacher training fails teachers as much as coursebooks fail students the 5 listening goals every learner should have a 3-pronged approach to teaching listening the problem she is trying to solve in ELT For more from Sheila: 1. The Listening Business 2. Connect on LinkedIn 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: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Book a free 1:1 chat to strategize your teaching business.  2. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 3. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  4. Download our free guides for teacherpreneurs. 

Join Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul as they discuss grammar knowledge in language acquisition, intervention research, educator influence on grammar learning, conditions for effective grammar instruction, and the study of monolinguals to understand L2 acquisition. They explore adult language learning challenges, literate vs. illiterate native speakers in a study on grammatical knowledge, explicit vs. implicit grammar teaching, and the evolving nature of language classrooms.

Award-winning scholar Bill VanPatten discusses how teaching often contradicts SLA research, importance of understanding communicative classrooms, debunking grammar rules' psychological validity, ineffectiveness of explicit instruction, and flawed assignments if AI can complete them.

Robin Walker and Gemma Archer, pronunciation specialists and co-authors of 'Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World', discuss the exclusionary nature of traditional pronunciation models in teaching. They argue for a focus on intelligibility and comprehensibility, emphasizing that unique accents can enhance communication. The conversation touches on the importance of the Lingua Franca Core, how to measure intelligibility, and why weak forms aren't essential. They advocate for an inclusive approach that celebrates diverse accents in language learning.