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Teacher Talking TimeDon't go Viral: The real keys to creating IMPACTFUL content - Laura Wilkes"You don't have to feel confident to be great at what you do."
We talk with Laura Wilkes, founder of Communicating for Impact, about content creation, putting yourself out there, and what it really takes to build a full-service production house.
Laura has 15 years of experience in education leadership and media production for global education brands. She started Communicating for Impact after seeing how high-quality, strategic media can accelerate growth for experts and mission-driven organizations.
In this episode, we chat about:
passions vs businesses
going from reluctant leader to confident dir...
2026-01-311h 07Teacher Talking TimeThere's a problem with the word "INCLUSION." We should use THIS instead - Ben GoldsteinWant to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"You can be included and still not feel that you belong" - Ben Goldstein.
We sit down with Ben to talk inclusion in ELT - and what that actually means (and what it doesn't).
Ben is a writer, teacher trainer and conference speaker. He taught materials writing for many years on the online MATESOL program of the New School in New York. He has published two methodology handbooks for teachers: Working with Images and Lan...
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Teacher Talking TimeThe biggest risk isn't being WRONG, it's being CONFUSED - John HealyWant to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"Make a decision about which direction you wanna head towards. Start walking and don't do anything else for 30 days" - John Healy
We chat with John Healy about education businesses, how indecision stagnates us, and what teachers can do to execute as entrepreneurs.
John Healy is the founder of My Speaking Score - an AI-powered platform that helps non-native English speakers prepare for the TOEFL Speaking test with confidence. From building a consulting business to teaching in Kore...
2026-01-011h 27Teacher Talking TimeYou'll never feel ready: do you want to build a teaching business or not? - Mariela MondacaWant to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"So many people are out there doing great things and they aren't ready, either, so I asked myself: Why not me?"
We chat with teacher and entrepreneur Mariela Mondaca.
Mariela is an English teacher, teacher trainer, and entrepreneur who has turned her 25 years of classroom experience into an online business. She designs programmes that bring together speakers of English as a foreign language from around the world, creating supportive communities where wellbeing-based topics spark conv...
2025-12-0345 minTeacher Talking TimeCan learning apps REALLY support language learning? The research may be surprising - Shawn LoewenWant to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"How do we make research meaningful for the classroom? What really helps students acquire grammar? Can apps ACTUALLY support second language learning?"
These are some of the questions we tackled in our conversation with Dr. Shawn Loewen.
Shawn Loewen is Professor of Second Language Studies at Michigan State University, where he directs the doctoral program in SLS. His research focuses on instructed second language acquisition, the research-practice gap, and mobile-assisted language learning. He is the...
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Teacher Talking TimeIt's magical to feel PROUD of something you created - Anna AleksenkoWant to chat with us about your business? Book a free meeting here.
"I have no shame whatsoever in marketing my own courses because I feel proud. I know for sure that it works." We chat with entrepreneur Anna Aleksenko
Anna is an entrepreneur based in Georgia who runs Voice it English, a program that helps professionals turn English into their career superpower. She's been teaching for over 17 years and has had to reinvent herself many times: something every entrepreneur can relate to. With a focus on connection, community, and client results, we're thrilled to ha...
2025-10-3158 minTeacher Talking TimeKids do NOT learn languages faster than adults. That's a MYTH - Dr. Karen LichtmanWant to move away from 1:1 and build your teaching business? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"There's this myth that kids learn faster than adults. Research shows it's not true; adults are actually better language learners" - Dr. Karen Lichtman.
Dr. Karen Lichtman recently moved to Binghamton University after ten years training language teachers at Northern Illinois University. Her research focuses on instructed second language acquisition, including age differences in language learning and implicit vs. explicit language teaching. Karen presents nationally and internationally to audiences of teachers and researchers.
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2025-10-141h 24Teacher Talking TimeYou need to master the art of self-reinvention - Jessica Dias*This is episode two of our series highlighting education entrepreneurs. New episodes every first of the month.
Want to chat with us about your business? Book a free meeting here.
"If it doesn't go according to plan, what is the worst thing that could happen that is the minimum I can be satisfied with?" We sit down with entrepreneur Jessica Dias to discuss growing a business.
Jessica is an English teacher and founder of Jessy Academy — an online school that helps Brazilian learners break free from the intermediate plateau and develop real communication skills...
2025-09-301h 02Teacher Talking TimeIs a TRULY task-based curriculum possible? - Claudia FernandezWant to move away from 1:1 and build your teaching business? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
From beginner to intermediate in 9 months: yes, it's possible and Claudia Fernandez tells us how.
Claudia runs her Spanish program at the University of Illinois-Chicago using a task-based curriculum. One result was bringing fifteen A1 students to intermediate over 9 months. She shares her story and how others can do the same.
At the University of Illinois-Chicago, Claudia is a Clinical Associate Professor, where she directs the Spanish Basic Language Program using a tas...
2025-09-191h 33Teacher Talking TimePractice is the Price: What Teaching Taught us about Building a Business*This launches the beginning of a new series of our show: education entrepreneurship. We'll release an additional episode monthly, highlighting entrepreneurial voices in our industry doing great things.
Want to chat with us? Book a free meeting here.
In this episode, we introduce the series and discuss what it takes to start and run your own business. Specifically, we explore the transition from traditional teaching roles to entrepreneurial ventures.
We chat about:
Why waiting until you're uncomfortable might be too late to start your business
The real difference between commitment and consistency an...
2025-09-0140 minTeacher Talking TimeThe Big BEASTS of English Grammar: What we Need to UNLEARN - Graham Burton50% off our CPD courses for podcast listeners - click here and use the code "TTT"
Does the grammar that is normally taught match the evidence corpus linguistics shows? Dr. Graham Burton helps us dissect the big beasts of English grammar.
Dr. Graham Burton is assistant professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy). His main research interests are applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching, materials development, pedagogic grammar, academic writing and multilingualism.
He has two recent book publications, Grammar in ELT and ELT Materials: Evaluating its History and Current Practice a...
2025-07-101h 31Teacher Talking Time"Don't teach AT the students. Teach OFF them" - Scott ThornburyWant to move away from 1:1 and build your teaching business? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"Don't teach at the students. Teach off them." Scott Thornbury becomes our first repeat guest and helps us dissect this and more.
Scott Thornbury is a teacher, teacher trainer, and award-winning author in English language education. He has taught and trained teachers around the world, including on the MA TESOL program at The New School in New York, and is widely recognized for his contributions to ELT methodology and teacher development.
He co...
2025-06-191h 33Teacher Talking TimeLearner autonomy is driven by the TEACHER, not the learner - Dr. David LittleWant to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
Learner autonomy is something that happens INSIDE the classroom, not out of it. Teachers can't sit back and wait for their students to become autonomous.
This is part of what the esteemed Dr. David Little shared with us in our conversation.
David Little is Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin and a leading scholar in learner autonomy, linguistic diversity, and the application of the CEFR in language education. He played a key role in dev...
2025-05-021h 28Teacher Talking TimeNative English isn't Relevant to the Majority of English Users - Jennifer JenkinsWant to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.
"It's such social injustice to expect people to use English like native English speakers, whichever country they're in." We dive into this and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) with Jennifer Jenkins.
Jennifer Jenkins is a British linguist and academic. She was Chair Professor of Global Englishes at the University of Southampton until her retirement in 2019. She is a leading figure in the study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and is an expert on commu...
2025-03-301h 44Teacher Talking TimeNative Teachers can't Fix Pronunciation - John LevisBook a complimentary meeting with us to help grow your business.
Learners can think a native teacher is a vaccine against poor pronunciation. Equally, native teachers can be misinformed in thinking that students should just follow them.
We dive into pronunciation, intelligibility, and teacher effects on learner performance with the great John Levis.
John is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. He is founding editor of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation and the founder of the annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. His research focuses on...
2025-02-281h 23Teacher Talking TimeStop Apologizing for Being Multilingual - Dr. Angelica GalanteBook 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 jus...
2025-01-291h 23Teacher Talking TimeA PLAN is not a STRATEGY: The 7 Cs of Teacherpreneur SuccessBook a free 1:1 to strategize your goals for your teaching business.
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Why do some teachers thrive as entrepreneurs while others struggle? We dissect this question.
Many teachers want to earn more, teach online, and gain more clients - but struggle to implement a sustainable strategy. We go over seven "Cs" to help.
In this episode, we dive into the "seven Cs of success for teacher entrepreneurship" and discuss:
confidence as a skill rather than a feeling
getting granular on goals
strat...
2025-01-041h 07Teacher Talking TimeWe should AIM to give more STATUS to being a teacher - Audrey Rousse-MalpatBook a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.
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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...
2024-11-281h 34Teacher Talking TimeBurnout and stress is TOO LATE for teacher wellbeing - Sarah MercerBook a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.
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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-p...
2024-11-011h 40Teacher Talking TimeELT is full of DISASTERS - Dr. Enrica PiccardoBook a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.
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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 Bria...
2024-09-251h 32Teacher Talking TimeTeachers have TWO options: Earn more or leave ELTBook 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...
2024-08-241h 03Teacher Talking TimeELT has the WRONG input: Learners can't understand REAL people - Sheila ThornEscaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.
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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 arti...
2024-07-311h 36Teacher Talking TimeGrammar is in the BRAIN, not on a piece of paper - Tania Ionin & Silvina MontrulJoin our free support group for teachers building their business.
Grammar instruction or grammar learning? We dive into this with today's guests.
Tania Ionin is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of expertise include second language acquisition and experimental semantics, with a focus on the nominal domain.
Silvina Montrul is Marjorie Roberts Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Ur...
2024-06-191h 21Teacher Talking TimeWe CANNOT and DO NOT Control What Students Learn - Bill VanPattenJoin our free support group for teachers building their business.
So many teachers focus on teaching when they should focus on something else. In this episode, we dive into this with the great Bill VanPatten.
Bill VanPatten is an award-winning scholar and teacher with an international reputation in the fields of second language acquisition and second language teaching. He is a requested speaker at conferences and meetings and over the course of his career he has given over 500 keynote speeches, plenaries, invited talks, and workshops.
We chat with Bill about why:
the maj...
2024-04-262h 02Teacher Talking TimeThe traditional pronunciation model EXCLUDES virtually every teacher - Robin Walker & Gemma ArcherJoin our free support group for teachers building their business.
So many teachers feel they can't teach pronunciation if their speech doesn't sound a certain way. Listen to this episode to discover why that isn't true.
Robin Walker and Gemma Archer are pronunciation specialists who co-authored "Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World," which aims to encourage pronunciation instruction from a lingua franca and intelligibility perspective.
We chat with Robin & Gemma about:
intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness
why the Lingua Franca Core is what teachers should learn
their disdain for Jennifer Jenkins' criticism of t...
2024-03-291h 47Teacher Talking TimeTBLT isn't a fad & this is why NOT using it is holding you back - Lara BryfonskiFind your niche & get 5 new clients. Start here.
Many teachers are wary of using a task-based approach. Learn how to overcome that and start using it in your business or classrooms.
Lara Bryfonski is an applied linguist and assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on task-based language teaching and she is the Project Director of STARTALK-TASK, an NSA-funded task-based training program for critical language teachers. She recently co-authored the book The Art and Science of Language Teaching with Alison Mackey.
In this episode, we chat with Lara about:
if...
2024-02-161h 47Teacher Talking TimeDonna Brinton on Content-based InstructionOur 5in30 community helps you get 5 new clients in 30 days. Start here.
Donna M. Brinton is a methodologist, trainer, author, and distinguished figure in applied linguistics. A key aspect of Donna's work is her advocacy for Content-Based Instruction (CBI). Over her five decades in the field, she has authored and co-authored many books, including the famed "Apple Book."
In this conversation, Donna expounds on:
her beginnings as a teacher & her struggles with methodology
why she decided to focus on methods as a point of emphasis
content-based instruction and how it impacts language learning
developing a...
2024-01-131h 28Teacher Talking Time2023 Wrapped: Making Next Year an Authentic OneOur 5in30 helps you get 5 new clients in 30 days. Start here.
Leo, Mike, and Andrew grab some nog, get in the holiday spirit, and chat about authenticity - Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023. We delve into what the word means to us and how we and anyone building a business can bring as much authenticity as possible into 2024.
Specifically, we dive into:
LYE's beginnings
our process and struggles with niching down
why the response "teachers will love that" to our first offer was a bad answer
the highs and lows of developing your ow...
2023-12-201h 07Teacher Talking TimeCecilia Nobre on Using Video for Teacher DevelopmentWe help teachers start their own online business for free. Click here to join in.
Cecilia Nobre is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at Warwick, has been an EFL teacher for over 20 years, and is a trainer on DipTESOL, CertTESOL, and Celta trainer. She has co-authored the book "Using Video to Support Teacher Reflection and Development in ELT" with Steve Mann and Laura Baecher.
Her research interests lie in the areas of teacher development, video reflection, and reflective practice. In this episode, Cecilia touches on:
video-based observation as a form of development
...
2023-11-291h 14Teacher Talking TimeGeoff Jordan on ELT Now and How It Could BeWe help teachers start their own business for free. Click here to join in.
Geoff Jordan is a teacher, trainer, academic, and author. Geoff has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, has worked at ESADE, Barcelona for 28 years, and recently co-authored a book with the late Mike Long called "ELT Now and How It Could Be."His main academic interests are: theories of SLA, psycholinguistics, teaching practice and computational linguistics.
Specifically, Geoff touches on:
his beginnings in the ELT industry
working alongside Mike Long, Peter Skehan and Henry Widdowson in the early days
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2023-10-241h 49Teacher Talking TimePaul Nation on the Four Strands, 27 years laterSee our free CPD and business growth guides for teachers. Click here.
Paul Nation is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Victoria and a renowned author and scholar in our industry. He joins us for a discussion on learning, putting research into practice, and - of course - the four strands 27 years later.
Paul touches specifically on:
his vocabulary niche
the birth of the four strands
how it's a basis for course construction, not lesson design
how he learned Greek on a 2 hour flight
why teachers who activate extensive reading in...
2023-09-101h 42Teacher Talking TimeDogme Days of Summer 2Want to get your first 5 clients in the next 30 days? Click here.
Deep in the Dogme Days of Summer, Mike, Leo, and Andrew get into part 2 of their series.
Here, we delve into:
using Dogme in the scope of outcome-based instruction
challenges implementing reactive teaching in different contexts
obstacles in moving from a structured approach to teaching to one of transference
using the "so you can" framework to get to the heart of your client's desired transformation
handling student objections to Dogme
utilizing self assessments and reflections so students gauge their own progress
why you...
2023-08-171h 00Teacher Talking TimeDogme Days of SummerClick here to join our free teacherpreneur support community to grow together.
Andrew, Mike, and Leo sit down and ponder Dogme....as a new approach? It certainly has experienced a resurgence since the pandemic and we are curious why that is.
We also dive into:
the role of the teacher
the shift away from planning & towards reacting
what authentic communication actually means
how teachers can model lifelong learning habits
using Dogme in your business and using the less is more philosophy
As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we...
2023-07-2152 minTeacher Talking TimeDylan Gates on Dogme and the RDS MethodClick here to join our free teacherpreneur support community to grow together.
Dylan was born just outside London and has been working in the ELT sector for nearly 25 years. About 12 years ago, he discovered Dogme, or as he prefers to call it “Teaching Unplugged”, and this led to his interest in deep-end learning approaches like TBLT and language coaching. When he trains teachers, he makes sure they learn how to move away from the coursebook and deal with emergent language.
In this episode, he shines a light on:
how freelancing led him to Dogme
why h...
2023-06-211h 17Teacher Talking TimeNicola Prentis on Investing in your Future SelfClick here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.
And click here to check out The Chilled Investor to make your money work for you.
Nicola has been in ELT for over 20 years as a teacher, materials writer, and entrepreneur. She's written many coursebooks and over 200 pages of the British Council learning English website. More recently, she helps language teachers take control of their finances.
Her interest in investing came about almost by accident when she began looking at her own woeful finances and she now supplements her income through inv...
2023-05-071h 04Teacher Talking TimeKen Lackman on the Lexical ApproachClick here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.
Ken has been in ELT since 1995. A teacher, trainer, and author, he has written or co-written over 20 books, including the recently published Connections 3 coursebooks with Pearson.
In this episode, he dives into the lexical approach, why it never caught on and how teachers can use it in their teaching.
Specifically, we dive into:
how ELT has evolved
why Michael Lewis was "pissed"
Dogme ELT & its place
how teachers can decide which vocabulary to focus on in Dogme /TBLT
his CAT fram...
2023-04-181h 23Teacher Talking TimeTeacherpreneur Challenges & Tackling Irrational FearsClick here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.
Leo, Mike and Andrew return to the studio to discuss the most common challenges teacherpreneurs face. They get into the three hats that a teacherpreneur needs and how to build up each one.
Specifically, they talk about:
balancing the teacher, creator, and entrepreneur in you
teaching being the only profession where we feel guilty about earning more money
why a lack of goal clarity means you won't move forward
perfectionism as an irrational fear
niching and eliminating competition
creating equity in your busin...
2023-02-201h 01Teacher Talking TimeLessons Learned in 2022Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.
Leo, Mike, and Andrew hop in the studio to record their annual year-end audit. Here, they reflect on the lessons they learned in 2022. They run through specific lessons that drive success, failure, and resilience.
Specific lessons they touch on are:
1. It always takes longer than we think it's going to take
2. Behind mountains are more mountains
3. Knowing what success looks like
4. Starting small
5. Getting over the case of the "What ifs"
Fo...
2022-12-171h 09Teacher Talking TimeDanny Norrington-Davies & Richard Chinn on Emergent LanguageGrow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.
Danny Norrington Davies and Richard Chinn have done extensive research on emergent language and have co-authored "Working with emergent language." Danny has over 25 years in the industry and is currently a CELTA and DELTA tutor. His first book "Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons" was a best-seller. Richard has trained teachers all over the world and currently does pre-service and in-service training courses at IH London. He is also an associate professor at King's College London.
In this episode, Danny & Richard discuss:
the rise of em...
2022-11-161h 20Teacher Talking TimeKatarina Mentzelopoulos on Exceptionalism in Language LearningJoin our free teacherpreneur community.
Katarina Mentzelopoulos is an ESRC-funded Ph.D. student at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include language learning motivation, exceptional language learning, multilingualism and learner identity.
She recently co-authored two books with the late Zoltán Dörnyei:
Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency (50% discount code STORIES50 until 30/11)
Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency (50% discount code LESSONS50 until 31/10)
The books tell the stories of people who achieved native-like proficiency against all odds.
In...
2022-10-181h 30Teacher Talking TimeChris Jacobs on Flow TheoryJoin our free teacherpreneur community.
Chris Jacobs joins Mike and Andrew to talk about flow theory. Chris is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, teaching French, Italian, Spanish, and Linguistics. He is currently working on projects exploring learning optimization through flow - flow is a state of deep focus on an enjoyable activity that is at once challenging and accessible. Research on flow and language acquisition is increasing, and Chris is at the forefront of that.
In this episode, Chris dives into:
what flow is and its balance between fun and relevance
ho...
2022-09-121h 04Teacher Talking TimeThe Advantages of DisadvantagesJoin our free teacherpreneur community.
Leo, Mike, and Andrew talk about burnout in education, Learn YOUR English beginnings, their journey, and how teachers can overcome obstacles. Drawing parallels from stories presented in Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath - the beginning of French impressionism, why going to Harvard isn't necessarily an advantage, Ikea's controversial founding and more - they tackle how successful teaching businesses emerge from seeing advantages in disadvantages.
Specifically, they discuss:
creating non-obvious solutions to obvious problems
how to follow the path of most resistance
why French impressionists decided to be big fish in...
2022-07-151h 24Teacher Talking TimeCEFR and the Dutch School SystemWant 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 CEF...
2022-06-2257 minTeacher Talking TimeAnthony GaughanWant 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 h...
2022-05-141h 27Teacher Talking TimeFlorencia HenshawTake 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 Pedago...
2022-04-131h 20Teacher Talking TimePractically Speaking: The CEFR & PlurilingualismWant 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 Me...
2022-03-3154 minTeacher Talking TimeTAP into the FutureWant 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 yo...
2022-02-0158 min
Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 18: FearWant 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...
2022-01-0236 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 37: Twenty Twenty WonWant 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 f...
2021-12-191h 06Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 36: Ask Us AnythingWant 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 n...
2021-11-1858 minTeacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 17: The Art of Noticing LanguageWant 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 a...
2021-11-0745 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 35:Jane SetterWant 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 Engli...
2021-10-011h 43Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 16: S.M.A.R.T. Goals for Effective Language LearningWant to teach less and earn more? Find out how.
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*”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 frust...
2021-09-2148 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 34: Chris JonesWant 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 Co...
2021-08-291h 19Teacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 8: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Miroslaw PawlakWe'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, y...
2021-08-0950 minTeacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 15: The Three Essentials of Language Learning, Part IIICULT/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...
2021-07-1534 minTeacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 7: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Shaofeng LiWe'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, y...
2021-06-281h 00Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 14: The Three Essentials of Language Learning - Part IICULT/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 bri...
2021-06-1445 minTeacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 6: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Neomy StorchWe'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, y...
2021-05-2838 minTeacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 13: The Three Essentials of Language Learning - Part 1CULT/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...
2021-05-2050 minTeacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 5: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. María del Pilar García MayoWe'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, y...
2021-05-091h 08Teacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 4: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Yucel YilmazWe'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, y...
2021-04-1945 minTeacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 12: What are Habits and The Science Behind Them, Part IIIWant to win a free subscription to habit tracking app Habitica?
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2021-04-1154 minTeacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 3: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Rebecca AdamsWe'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, y...
2021-04-0459 minTeacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 2: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Hossein NassajiWe'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, y...
2021-03-211h 03Teacher Talking TimeCorrective Feedback 1: Exploring the Discourse by Connecting Scholars & TeachersWe'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...
2021-03-0836 minTeacher Talking TimeCult of Learning 11: What are Habits and The Science Behind Them, Part II/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 secon...
2021-02-2746 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 33: Scott ThornburyScott 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 F...
2021-02-141h 45Teacher Talking TimeCult of Learning 10: What are Habits and The Science Behind Them, Part I/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 c...
2021-01-3145 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 32: Two Years of Teacher Talking TimeTo 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...
2021-01-181h 47Teacher Talking TimeCult of Learning 9: Our Words of the Year for 2020/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 y...
2020-12-2646 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 31: 2020 Year in ReviewMike, 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...
2020-12-161h 37Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 8: Mastering the Art of Conversation/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 Learn...
2020-11-1548 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 30: Luke MeddingsLeo 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 "...
2020-11-011h 33Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 7: Visualizing Yourself in English/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...
2020-10-1858 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 29: Dr. Masatoshi SatoLeo 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 pub...
2020-09-301h 36Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 6: Why Learn a New Language?/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 ab...
2020-09-1455 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 28: Ana-Marija PetrunicAndrew 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...
2020-08-311h 13Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 5: Setting Clear Language Goals, Part III
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*”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 las...
2020-08-0345 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 27: Chiara Bruzzano & Marc JonesIn 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)
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2020-08-021h 43Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 4: Setting Clear Language Goals, Part II
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*”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...
2020-07-0141 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 26: Jason AndersonIn 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...
2020-06-301h 13Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 3: Setting Clear Language Goals, Part 1
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*”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...
2020-06-0146 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 25: Jane WillisIn 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 ad...
2020-05-301h 56Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 2: Three Myths of Learning
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*”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...
2020-05-0436 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 24: Dr. Marije MichelIn 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 ro...
2020-05-031h 36Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 23: Fernando Rosell-AguilarIn 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
pr...
2020-04-121h 40Teacher Talking TimeThe Cult of Learning 1: Three Rules of Learning
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*”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 YO...
2020-03-2843 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 22: Vinicius Nobre*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 bi...
2020-03-111h 20Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 21: Neil McMillanIn 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 b...
2020-02-111h 30Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 20: A Decade, Change, and the Three MusketeersTo 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 an...
2020-01-071h 34Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 19: Dr. Paula WinkeIn 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."
2019-11-1356 minTeacher Talking TimeEpisode 18: Why Did You Become a Teacher? Part 2October 5 is Teacher Appreciation Day in Canada, and in over 100 countries globally. To help celebrate teachers and teaching professionals the LYE podcast - Teacher Talking Time - has organized a special two-part series called “Why did you become a teacher?” We interviewed six teachers from different countries and contexts to hear their stories, and celebrate the stories of all educators around the world.
We asked six teachers eight questions over two episodes. We talked about becoming a teacher, remaining a teacher, thinking about leaving teaching, misconceptions of teaching, rewarding experiences, and much more.
The teachers who g...
2019-10-261h 21Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 17: End the Stigma - Global Mental Health Awareness Day*The following episode contains subject matter pertaining to mental health. These topics may be sensitive in nature and could be triggering to some listeners. This episode is not intended to be a substitute for professional or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please visit your local emergency department or call 911.
**Please see our blog post about this episode for a list of mental health services in the Toronto, Canada area. All of these come recommended by the professionals involved in this episode.
World Mental Health Awareness Day...
2019-10-101h 54Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 16: Why Did You Become a Teacher? Part 1October 5 is Teacher Appreciation Day in Canada, and in over 100 countries globally. To help celebrate teachers and teaching professionals the LYE podcast - Teacher Talking Time - has organized a special two-part series called “Why did you become a teacher?” We interviewed six teachers from different countries and contexts to hear their stories, and celebrate the stories of all educators around the world.
We asked six teachers eight questions over two episodes. We talked about becoming a teacher, remaining a teacher, thinking about leaving teaching, misconceptions of teaching, rewarding experiences, and much more.
The teachers who g...
2019-10-051h 01Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 15: Brett ReynoldsIn this episode, Leo talks to teacher, trainer, and author Brett Reynolds. Brett has almost thirty years in the ELT industry, getting his start in Japan in 1992. Since 2003, he has worked at Toronto, Canada's Humber College, in the EAP and TESL programs. Brett was also the editor for TESOL Ontario's Contact Magazine from 2012 until 2019.
In this episode, Brett talks to Leo about his recent publication in the ELT Journal called "Against Teaching Collocations."
Are collocations connected to language acquisition?
Are they actually a beneficial strategy for vocabulary building?
Does it matter if students can notice and i...
2019-09-151h 07Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 14: Dr. Susan HunstonIn episode 13, Leo sits down with Dr. Susan Hunston. Dr. Hunston is a professor at the university of Birmingham, where she has taught applied linguistics and English language since 1986. She also did her PhD at Birmingham, and her thesis is titled "Evaluation in experimental research articles." Dr. Hunston won the Fellowship of of the Academy of Social Science Award in 2010, and the Officer of the most Excellent Order in 2017.
Her main research areas are in Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. Some of her more popular books include:
2002 Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
1999 Pattern Grammar: a...
2019-08-171h 29Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 13: Dr. Patsy LightbownIn this episode, Leo chats with Dr. Patsy Lightbown, PhD. Dr. Lightbown has been in ELT for over forty years, and her research has focused on the teaching and learning of second and foreign languages in classroom contexts.
Professor Lightbown is co-author of How Languages Are Learned, one of - if not the - most renowned books in the industry. There are now 4 editions in the award-winning series.
Lightbown also wrote Focus on Content-based Language Teaching and numerous articles, many of which can be found in Learning a Second Language Classroom.
She is curre...
2019-06-181h 03Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 12: A Performance-based Approach to Language LearningLYE's Leo and Andrew jumped across the atlantic recently to attend the annual ELT conference at International House, Barcelona. Teacher Talking Time is happy to present a mini series chronicling their travels, the conference, and all teaching related (and some non-teaching related) takeaways from the journey.
The final installment looks at Scott Thornbury's plenary on a performance-based approach to language teaching. Mike, Leo, and Andrew ponder the differences between competence and performance, or, as Chomsky says, the difference between "knowing" about a language and the ability to put it in to use. The guys then discuss if...
2019-06-091h 14Teacher Talking TimeEpisode 11: Talking Task-based Language Teaching with Neil McCutcheonIn this episode, Leo chats with teacher and teacher trainer Neil McCutcheon. Neil lives in Strasbourg, France and is the head of CELTA and DELTA training at the ELT Hub in both Strasbourg and Leon. He began teaching in 1991 and has taught in Ghana, Hungary, the UK, and now in France. His main interests are teacher education and developing materials that reflect what we know about second language acquisition.
On this note, one of Neil's areas of focus is TBLT: Task-based Language Teaching, sometimes referred to as Task-based Learning. He strongly believes this approach is one of t...
2019-05-2056 min