Many years ago, Teresa Pica (1994) wrote a brilliant article titled: Questions from the Language Classroom: Research Perspectives. This article aimed to answer common questions that teachers have about teaching through the research lens, and did this brilliantly in my mind. So, when I heard that Lara Bryfonski and Alison Mackey’s recently published book, TheContinue reading “Review: The Art and Science of Language Teaching – Lara Bryfonski and Alison Mackey”
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Musings of an academic manager – Reflections on implementing a task-supported syllabus 1
This year, we are implementing a task-supported syllabus in the academy where I work. It has been a while in the making, with the plans for this being drawn up last academic year – in fact, my assignments for the NILE MA Trainer Development module were centred on it. I thought I would slowly writeContinue reading “Musings of an academic manager – Reflections on implementing a task-supported syllabus 1”
Review: English Language Teaching Now and How It Could Be – Geoff Jordan and Mike Long
Within ELT, there are two names that stand out as outliers in the fight against coursebooks – Geoff Jordan and Mike Long. Jordan is a well-known ELT personality whose blog aims to inform and critique simultaneously, and push and prod where our industry doesn’t like to be pushed or prodded. More than once I’ve foundContinue reading “Review: English Language Teaching Now and How It Could Be – Geoff Jordan and Mike Long”
Sponge Chats – Perspectives on TBLT teacher education with Lara Bryfonski
This blog post is part of the Sponge Chats video series. Ok, so this Sponge Chat is for all my TBLT people. Some time ago, I came across Lara Bryfonski’s brilliant article From task-based training to task-based instruction: Novice language teachers’ experiences and perspectives, and as I was reading I kept having those ‘yep’ moments. It wasContinue reading “Sponge Chats – Perspectives on TBLT teacher education with Lara Bryfonski”
Sponge Chats – Perspectives on TBLT with Daniel O. Jackson
This blog post is part of the Sponge Chats video series. For those avid Sponge ELT fans, you will all know that some time ago I reviewed Daniel O. Jackson’s brilliant Cambridge Element – Task Based Language Teaching. After this, I was lucky enough to get in touch with Daniel, and he agreed to come on forContinue reading “Sponge Chats – Perspectives on TBLT with Daniel O. Jackson”
Sponge Chats – Perspectives on TBLT with Martin East
Within the world of TBLT, Martin East is one of the most recognisable names. His work spans decades (and numerous articles, books, conferences, etc.), and he has been involved in both TBLT and second language teacher education for much of that time. As an advocate of TBLT myself, I felt quite lucky to have theContinue reading “Sponge Chats – Perspectives on TBLT with Martin East”
Review: Cambridge Elements – Mediating Innovation through Language Teacher Education – Martin East
Here we are again with another review of another Cambridge Element! Martin East is someone who really needs no introduction, especially to those in the TBLT world. When I heard that he was releasing an Element that focused on innovation, with TBLT as the ‘focus’, and it was done so from a teacher education perspective,Continue reading “Review: Cambridge Elements – Mediating Innovation through Language Teacher Education – Martin East”
Review: Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching – Mike Long
For my birthday, I was lucky enough to get a copy of Mike Long’s (2015) seminal work, Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching (Thank you Patrick, Carlota, Sara and Cesar!). It is a beast of a book and my copy as of now has many notes, post-its, etc. all over it because it isContinue reading “Review: Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching – Mike Long”
Review: Task-Based Language Teaching – Theory and Practice – Ellis, Skehan, Li, Shintani and Lambert.
For those of you that have been following me, you know I’ve been going deeper into task-based language teaching (TBLT). I recently reviewed Anderson and McCutcheon’s fantastic Activities for Task-Based Learning and I recently finished a course focused on Reading in a task-based classroom. Alongside these, I’ve also been reading – well, now finished readingContinue reading “Review: Task-Based Language Teaching – Theory and Practice – Ellis, Skehan, Li, Shintani and Lambert.”
Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 6
Why not check out the previous weeks’ post, if you haven’t already: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 We are finally here – the last week! This final week has been focused on really making a task from a reading text; in a sense, bringing everything we have learnt over theContinue reading “Teaching EFL/ESL Reading: A Task-Based Approach – Week 6”
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