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Minor achievements, major gains
Last Friday evening (it’s been a busy week!), I took myself out to dinner. It’s become my Friday treat here – a meal out, on the way home after work. It means the weekend has arrived! Usually it...
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IHTOC (International House Teachers Online Conference) May 2014
At 14.20 CET (12.20 GMT, 13.20 BST) I took part in the International House Teachers Online Conference (a.k.a IHTOC). Each talk in this conference is ten minutes in length, with talks being divided up...
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#ELTChat Summary (7/5/2014) –“How we deal with passive learners”
#ELTchat discussions take place once a week, on Wednesdays, at 12.00 or 21.00 each week, on a rotating basis. (To find out more about #ELTchat and these weekly discussions, please visit the #ELTchat...
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My latest British Council Associate blog post: RESET – five tips for staying...
My British Council Associate blog post for May was on the topic of teacher motivation. I came up with a cheesy acronym for my tips – RESET! (or: Read, Experiment, Step back, Evaluate, Take a break)...
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Learning contracts and language learning
The concept Have you or your students ever made a learning contract before? Up to now, I’ve mostly encountered the concept in association with teaching young learners/teenagers and it generally...
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Helping language learners visualise their linguistic development: growing...
My learners often struggle to recognise the progress they are making and how much work they do put in to their learning – both seem like a drop in the ocean compared to all the lacks – the “I can’t“‘s...
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Motivation
Motivation is a slippery beast. Amongst those who research it, there are many differing views (Dornyei and Ushioda 2012) but there is agreement with regards to its effect on human behaviour:...
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British Council Videos: ‘Teacher Talk’
One of the perks of being a British Council Associate is that as well as having had the opportunity to deliver a webinar (with another on the cards for next year!) I have also been able to participate...
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IATEFL 2015 Fostering autonomy: harnessing the outside world from within the...
Well, I thought I had better attend my own talk… My abstract for this year’s talk is as follows: It is widely acknowledged that language learning requires use of the target language outside the...
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