Finding What Works for You as a Learner
Multilingual speaker Urmi Hossain joins us to share her experiences learning multiple languages and the personalised strategies she’s developed. Urmi’s learning journey highlights the importance of finding methods that resonate with personal goals, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
Uncovering Hidden Meaning in our Teaching Materials
Author and Teacher Trainer Katherine Reilly explores the role of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in English language teaching and materials. Katherine explains how CDA can help educators identify hidden meanings, assumptions, and power dynamics within their teaching materials so we can make changes that foster a more inclusive and supportive environment.
Start Building the Career You Want
Author Martin Hajek talks about the importance of role models and access to information to make informed decisions about our careers in the English Language Teaching industry. Martin shares three stories from his latest book More Than A Gap Year Adventure that demonstrate the wide range of career paths that are possible.
Learning Strategies that Get Results
Author Rachael Harris discusses her latest book, Activities for Developing Learning Strategies, and how her experience teaching teens and young learners inspired her to focus on inclusive practices and strategies to boost students' performance.
Power up Your Professional Development with Experiential Learning
Kirsten Holt, founder of Creativity Sown, talks about experiential learning in teacher development. In this episode, Kirsten shares practical tips for getting started and highlights the value of building a community to exchange ideas and support growth.
Setting Students up for Success in the Workplace
English language trainer Leo Wu shares insights into tasks he uses in his classes to support his Business English learners in developing essential soft skills for the workplace.
Curating Personalised Learning Paths with Online Platforms
Roger Hubmann, founder of Happy Students, talks about the evolving role of online learning platforms in language education and how modern platforms can create dynamic, engaging, and personalised learning paths for students.
Is Generative AI Making Cheating Easier?
In our 100th episode, TESOL Pop's co-founders Laura Wilkes and Eve Conway talk about generative AI and its implications for education. The explores challenges and opportunities tools like ChatGPT present in learning, assessment, and plagiarism.
S9 Special: Build Your Teaching Brand with Videos
Basma Abd Elhamied, founder of TEFLship, talks about the importance of having a personal brand, how teachers can start, and how video can help. Basma also shares practical tips to start creating videos.
S9E10: What to Prioritise When Teaching Pronunciation
Gemma Archer shares insights from her latest book, Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World, co-authored with Robin Walker. In this episode, Gemma talks about prioritising intelligibility over native-likeness in language learning, setting realistic learning goals, as well as shares techniques we can use to develop learners’ pronunciation.
S9E9: Let’s Plan a Podcast using Visual Templates
Emily Bryson shares how visual templates can enhance learning by providing a creative way for students to brainstorm and plan projects, such as podcasts. This episode includes practical demonstrations and tips on incorporating visual templates and graphic facilitation into classrooms.
S9E8: Decolonising the Language Classroom
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant Dr Amina Douidi talks about racial basis in teaching, materials, and assessment in the context of the language classroom and shares actions we can take to address the problem.
S9E7: Teaching Active Listening Skills
Communications Coach Shweta Ramkumar shares insights into teaching active listening skills to healthcare professionals. In this episode, Shweta explains what active listening is, why it's important and how we can develop this skill in the ESL classroom.
S9E6: What is Task-Based Learning?
Author Jane Willis answers your questions about task-based learning (TBL). In this episode, Jane provides examples of TBL in practice, explores the difference between task-based and task-supported learning, and closes with suggestions on how the latest technology can fit into a TBL framework.
S9E5: Becoming a Legal English Teacher
Natasha Costello, co-author of Practical English Language Skills for Lawyers and a legal English educator, discusses career pathways to teaching legal English. In this episode, Natasha shares insights into learners' needs, lesson content, and suggests resources for anyone interested in exploring teaching legal English as a career.
S9E4: A Disruptive Approach to Teaching and Materials
Author of How to Write Inclusive Materials, Tyson Seburn, discusses a disruptive approach to building greater empathy and inclusion in the language classroom. In this interview, Tyson walks through the five stages of the disruptive approach and suggests topics, questions, materials and activities we can use for each lesson stage.
S9E3: Coaching Language Learners to Success
Founder of Fluent Language, Kerstin Cable, discusses the difference between teaching and coaching. Kerstin walks through key elements of her language habit system, which focuses on a cycle of planning, tracking, reviewing, and goal setting to set learners up for success.
S9E2: Common Myths about Teaching Pronunciation
Founder of Pronunciation with Emma, Emma Walker, addresses myths surrounding teaching pronunciation, from misconceptions about the skills we need as teachers to common mixups between accent and pronunciation.
S9E1: Lesson Materials to Try with Your Adult Learners
Teacher and materials writer Silvina Mascitti shares three lesson plans from her library of free materials at EFL Creative Ideas. Silvina walks through the various lesson stages for each lesson and shares insights into how she uses the materials with her adult learners.
Season Special: Three Great Works of Literature
Retired teacher Chris Starling shares a few of his favourite works of literature that inspired him as a linguaphile and educator. Listeners are invited to continue the conversation by sharing their favourite works of literature in the comments.