The TEFL Training Institute centers around one big idea – helping teachers develop. If you're a TEFL teacher, trainer or manager and you're looking for new ideas, you've come to the right place. With hosts Ross Thorburn and Tracy Yu.
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2024-03-31 | In this episode, Stephen Krashen tells Ross some of the arguments against forcing students to speak, something which might not just be inefficient, but in some cases counterproductive.For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the p... |
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2024-03-03 | My friend Niamh Ryan, joins me to talk about evaluating teacher training. How can you tell if your training is making a difference? |
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2024-02-04 |
Remembering More, Forgetting Less (with Lesley Painter-Farrell) In this episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Lesley Painter Farrell about how we can help students retain more language lessons for the long haul. During the podcast, Lesley outlines the difference between short-term learning and lo... |
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2023-12-31 | Take our AI course and get one third off using the promo code: ROSS33. Go to AI for Language Teaching | Hong Kong TESOL to sign up.Dave Weller joins the show to discuss the benefits and limitations of AI for teachers. Dave explains how AI can help auto... |
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2023-12-03 |
Teacher Evaluation: A Double Edged Sword (with Professor Kathleen Bailey) Professor Bailey tells us about what supervisors can do to earn trust, why supervision and evaluation is important, and how everyone can make the most out of the process.For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy u... |
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2023-11-05 |
Young Learners Doing CommunicativeTasks (with Annamaria Pinter) Young learner expert, Annamaria Pinter joins me to talk about getting young learners to communicate with each other. |
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2023-10-01 | Paul Thompson from Birmingham University joins me to talk about English for academic purposes. What is academic English? How much does it vary between subjects? How can teachers assigned to teach academic English figure out what to teach? Which activit... |
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2023-09-03 | Professor Michael McCarthy joins me to talk about using corpora in language teaching. Mike tells us how teachers should use corpora when planning lessons, the advantages and disadvantages of showing corpora to students. We discuss how teachers can crea... |
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2023-08-06 |
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Listening Strategies (with Jonathan Newton) Professor Jonathan Newton joins me to discuss teaching listening skills. Does it make sense to talk about top-down and bottom-up approaches? How can we practice these in the classroom? And what are Jonathan’s top tips for improving students’ speakin... |
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2023-07-02 | Thom Kiddle joins me to talk about online teacher training courses. What makes them effective? What best practices are there for trainers? And what kinds of questions can teachers ask to help trainees reflect?Support the podcast by buying us a coffeeFo... |
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