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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2024-12-22 |
What's The Best Way To Become A Better Teacher (With Thomas Guskey) In a special end of year double length episode, Professor Thomas Guskey, author of Evaluating Professional Development talks to us about the best way to help teachers learn and the evidence for workshops, peer observations and what the best teachers do... |
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2024-11-03 |
Changing Approaches and Methods in the Language Classroom (with Anne Carmichael) We speak with Anne Carmichael, Trinity Diploma in TESOL course director and moderator about what it was like to experience the changes from grammar translation to audio-lingualism to communicative language teaching.For more podcasts, videos and blogs, ... |
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2024-09-01 | Coursebook writer and teacher trainer Ceri Jones talks to us about mediation. How can teachers mediate their coursebook content to make it more meaningful for students? Why are students now expected to be able to mediate between languages? And how can ... |
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2024-06-30 |
Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching (with Jonathan Newton) |
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2024-06-02 | We speak with friends and experts about teacher training and what needs to change. |
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2024-05-05 | Jane Willis joins us to discuss the drawbacks of PPP and the benefits and challenges of using task cycles for language lessons. willis-ELT.co.ukFor more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee!Develop yoursel... |
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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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