Part two of our interview with Marek Kiczkowiak! This week Alan and Chris are delighted to be interviewing Marek Kiczkowiak from TEFL Equity Advocates who talks to us about informing students on teacher qualifications, teacher nightmares in the past and .

This week Alan and Chris are delighted to be interviewing Marek Kiczkowiak from TEFL Equity Advocates who talks to us about all things native speaker-ism, English as a Lingua Franca, IELTS examiners taking the IELTS exam (!) and labeling terminologies in.

This week we talk about ...that thing.  The year 2020. And it's only July!  We had to eventually, so after putting the podcast on hiatus during the school-year lockdown to cut down on our screen time, we look back on it now.    Below we've supplied a fe.

This week Alan and Chris (joined very briefly by Victor) go gardening and discuss the old view of Parsnips in ELT, and discuss what the new Parsnips should look like, introduced by Aleksandra Popovski in her MaWSIG blog last year. And Alan gets left with.

This week Alan and Chris discuss the little things in the classroom that makes a big difference. Alan likes thumbs on table, while Chris prefers to give the finger. From what should be on your class walls (if possible), entering the classroom, slight cul.

This week we discuss feedback in the classroom as a teacher, as a student, what we like and use, plus some interesting stats from courses, as well as Alan goes to Emerald City on the Yellow Brick Road. One of the methods we mention is the Stop-Start-Cont.

This week we talk about our own language learning journeys and how that has influenced our own teaching. Being two bookish English teachers, our first recommendation is get students reading, reading and a bit more reading - but alas, they might not be to.

This week Alan and Chris are joined by Victor Hugo Medina in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to discuss all things pronunciation.  What difficulties do students have, what problems do teachers have, and is there an issue with academic native speaker bias? Victor .

This week Alan and Chris are honoured to be joined by teacher and World Englishes researcher Claudia Schiavon for a chat about English all around the world. We go into detail about what World Englishes are, the craic you can have with them, what we can d.

This week Chris interviews Alan after he presented his research into Emotional Intelligence at the annual ELT Ireland Conference in Dublin. Alan discusses the importance of knowing about Emotional Intelligence and Mood in the classroom, and based on the .