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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com

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: info@learnyourenglish.com  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: info@learnyourenglish.com