ELT Today: A Frameworks Education Podcast

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A podcast exploring the world of English language teaching: language teaching approaches and language learning, teacher training and ongoing teacher development, searching for jobs to entrepreneurism, and everything TEFL-related in between.

Emma L Pratt

  • Mar 27, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • every other week NEW EPISODES
  • 12m AVG DURATION
  • 26 EPISODES


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Online Teaching Diaries 6: Feedback, Backup Plans, Rapport and Professionalism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2020 9:34


James is now getting into the swing of teaching online. He's starting to get feedback from students and parents and is reflecting on how he can apply good teaching approaches online. More free support for teachers: https://learning.eltcampus.com/courses/take/webinars-for-english-teachers-online-teaching

Online Teaching Diaries 5

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 5:49


https://learning.eltcampus.com/ James, our English teacher based in Southern Spain, starts to see some benefits of teaching online.

Online Teaching Diaries 4

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 5:37


It's the big day. James, our English teacher based in Southern Spain, conducts his first lessons online with young learners and teens. Join us as James shares his journey to move his teaching online. https://learning.eltcampus.com/courses/how-to-teach-english-online

Online Teaching Diaries 3: Making decisions, learning about platforms

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 5:39


James brings us his first installment of being a teacher in lock-down in Spain and what he is doing as a complete beginner to get teaching online.

Online Teaching Diaries 2: You will not die of a heart attack. You can do this.

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 10:08


James, our English teacher based in Southern Spain, wakes up to his new life/work reality and gets to grips with the first decisions to be made to become an online teacher and survive under lockdown.

The English Teacher in Lock-down Diaries: Teaching Online for Absolute Beginners Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 4:38


James brings us his first installment of being a teacher in lock-down in Spain and what he is doing as a complete beginner to get teaching online.

Rob Howard: Coaching and Neurolanguage in English Language Teaching

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2020 14:58


What’s the difference between teaching and coaching? What can we learn from neuroscience and learning to apply to our own teaching? Is it just another methodology gimmick, the latest bandwagon to jump on? Or is there some core sense in this area to add to our English language teacher toolbox? I spoke with well-known Business English language and communications specialist Rob Howard about the 4th International Neurolanguage Learning and Coaching conference taking place in London 16-17th in April 2020. https://london20.neurolanguagecoaching.com/ Sound credit: Bangcorrupt

Image Conference: Reflections on the Conference from Participants

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2018 9:52


The Image Conference is an exciting, personable gathering for language teachers with a particular interest in multimodality and visual literacy. Each year, over two days we engage with each other and learn together. This year (2018) the conference was held in Athens with a strand of the conference being run by the GISIG (Global Issues Special Interest Group). It focused on the migrant and refugee crisis in Greece and around the world. We considered what this meant for us as language teachers and multidisciplinary specialists involved in education. How are we responding? How does this inform our practice? If you are interested in what applied linguistics and language teaching looks like out there when it meets global issues and other disciplines, be brave! Come join us in Brussels in October 2019. https://www.facebook.com/The.Image.Conference https://www.facebook.com/VisualArtsCircle/ https://visualartscircle.com/ http://theimageconference.org/ http://gisig.iatefl.org/ https://www.facebook.com/GlobalIssuesSIG/

The Image Conference Athens 2018: No Borders Schools Project

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2018 9:52


Volunteer teacher Mathieu Poignet of No Border School, talks to Emma Louise Pratt at the Image Conference in Athens, Greece, October 2018. https://www.facebook.com/noborderschool/ https://www.facebook.com/The.Image.Conference/

Travelling together from the unknown to the known: Tony Gee, Workshops and Project Based Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017 14:18


While contemplating project based and experiential learning, Emma finds out some key truths for learning in the world of workshop artist Tony Gee, the Artistic Director and co-founder of Creation Myth Puppets. Tony who has worked in the arts and as a puppeteer, for over 30 years, touring shows and workshops all over the world. www.creationmythpuppets.co.uk/ Workshop a Moveable Feast by Tony Gee (ISBN: 9780902386204) Dartington College of Arts Sound by: Bensound.com & lemoncreme

Teaching English in Brazil: An interview with BrazTESOL President Henrick Oprea

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2017 31:34


Emma Pratt talks with Henrick Oprea about teaching English in Brazil, teacher development, the BrazTESOL conference in 2018, Native-Speakerism, locally informed methodologies and the art of reflection in learning and life. sound in this podacst: You were listening to Beats by reinsamba, a 1939 recording of Francisco Alves performing "Aquarela do Brasil", "Tico-Tico no Fubá" performed by the great Paco de Lucia -a little "aflamencado" for the purists, but a great version never-the-less. Henrick Oprea Blog: https://hoprea.wordpress.com BrazTESOL site: http://www.braztesol.org.br/site/view.asp?p=2

Multimodal Literacies, the Visual Arts & ELT

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2017 29:59


Is there a paradigm shift happening in the world of TEFL and language teaching? Emma Pratt talks to Anna Whitcher and Kieran Donaghy, the dynamic partnership behind the Visual Arts Circle, a community of practice formed for language teachers interested in multimodal literacy, visual literacy and the visual arts. The Visual Arts Circle's sixth annual Image Conference kicks off in October 2017 in Lisbon. Get involved in VAC: https://visualartscircle.com The Image Conference: http://theimageconference.org/

The Latest Trend in Teacher Training is Far from Cambridge

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2017 5:06


Gone are the days of the ‘traditional’ English teacher breeding grounds, such as London and Cambridge, unusual and exotic training locations are here to stay. Here’s why.

New African Horizons: Okon Effiong and Africa TESOL

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2017 19:30


"In English Langauge Teaching, Africa is under-represented internationally and I had a vision to develop a platform for Africa to be heard, for us to speak with a louder voice...I asked myself, 'Where do I start?'" Okon Effiong is the President of the Steering Committee of Africa TESOL, a regional body that aims to create a united front for English language practitioners in Africa, pursuing professionalism in language education and striving to create an enabling environment for research and practice to interact. http://www.africatesol.org/ https://www.facebook.com/AfricaTESOL/ Sound Credits: klankbeeld: Ghanaian woman sings traditional song reinsamba: Harp player and drummer from Gambia during the Berlin carnival of cultures, 2011 NinadeVroome: Ndere music group in Kampala, Uganda bensound.com

Quiet catalysts for change: The life of a regular EFL teacher

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2017 20:44


The world of English language teaching is diverse. This month we have a conversation with Magdalena Brzezinska. Magdalena has been an EFL teacher for over 20 years in her native Poland, and a teacher trainer for 10 years. She has taught practical English and sociolinguistics to English Philology students at the University of Warmia and Masuria, Poland and presently, she is teaching junior high school students. She talks to us about working with teens, project based learning, and who inspired her to become an English language teacher in the first place. Music and sound: bensound.com KeffyStay: Guitar miastodzwiekow: Corner Pub on Kosciuszki street in Poznan, Poland

Classroom Management with Moira Allen II

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2017 10:31


Our ELTcampus guest blogger Moira Allen conitnues with what she finds effective with managing young learners in the classroom. Part two of a two part series for our ELT Today Podcast by Frameworks Education Group. Music: bensound.com Classroom ambience thanks to Rocio and her five year olds in Seville and Emma with her seven year olds!

Classroom Management with Moira Allen Part I

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2017 14:45


Our ELTcampus guest blogger Moira Allen speaks to us about what she finds effective with managing young learners in the classroom. A two part series for our ELT Today Podcast by Frameworks Education Group. Music: bensound.com Classroom ambience thanks to Rocio and her five year olds in Seville!

Anna Hasper talks teaching, learning, language acquisition and young learners.

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2017 25:01


Emma talks with Anna Hasper on being stranded in China, teacher training, what's happening in a young learner classroom and the new ELTcampus Course. For info about the course: eltcampus.com/product/teaching-e…to-young-learners/ Contact Emma: training@eltcampus.com Sounds: www.bensound.com

Building an ELT Community in Iran

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2017 14:04


We talk with Bita Rezaei about the ups and downs and exciting developments for English language teachers in Iran today. IELTA: http://www.ielta2017.com/en/index.php

The Power of Being Present in Language Learning and Teaching - An Interview with Jeremy Harmer

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2016 14:48


Emma L Pratt talks with writer, practioner, teacher developer and seminar presenter, Jeremy Harmer about the power of being a good "noticer" or observer as a learner, and also as a teacher and ELT professional.

Island Tide Turning: How Malta is Shifting Its ELT Image

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2016 6:57


From warm, Mediterranean island to ELT powerhouse: Malta is in the midst of a huge ELT industry shift. At the fourth annual ELT Malta Conference in November last year, the industry was feeling the aftereffects of change. Just months prior, the old government-moderated EFL monitoring board had become defunct; replaced by a newer, slicker, ELT council. And with it came a renewed set of rules for teachers. Read this podcast as a blog article: http://www.studycelta.com/how-malta-is-shifting-its-elt-image

Laying the Foundations for Better CELTA trainees

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2016 7:32


After realising that trainees on his own courses were struggling to come to terms with a lot of new concepts and techniques, teacher trainer Jamie King decided to look for a solution. After a chance conversation with an English teacher-cum-course-designer who’d noticed the same thing, the ELTcampus TEFL preparation course was born. Read this podcast in a blog: http://www.studycelta.com/laying-the-foundations-for-better-celta-trainees

Everything you need to know about teaching English in Korea

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 9:34


Ever thought about starting your teaching career in South Korea? We speak to someone who did just that - and she's now the president of a national teachers' organisation. Read this article as a blog: http://www.studycelta.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-teaching-english-in-south-korea

Ten definitive answers to your most common CELTA questions

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2016 10:10


We sit down with a CELTA expert to put to rest all of your frequently-asked questions about the course. With more than 90 centres worldwide, hundreds of students a year and 13 years in the business, it’s little surprise that we often get thrown some curveball questions here at StudyCELTA. But there are also a few that we field every day. The same few that if you do a basic internet search, you’ll find a range of different, inconsistent answers. So, with that in mind, we’ve spoken to Claire Potter, head of teacher training in Seville and a Cambridge assessor, to answer – once and for all – your most burning CELTA questions. Forget the five different responses you’ve seen mused in social media groups and on TEFL forums – to find out everything you need to know about the CELTA course, this is the only podcast you'll need. Read the article of this podcast here: http://www.studycelta.com/ten-definitive-answers-to-your-most-common-celta-questions

Becoming an English Teacher - With Dyslexia

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2016 10:59


Much has been said and done about teaching students with dyslexia; as our understanding and awareness of learning difficulties grow, so too does our ability to support those afflicted. And yet, and yet… as the movement for dyslexia-friendly ESL charges forward, a lesser-known side to the story is pushed aside in its wake. We investigate what teaching English is like for someone who has dyslexia.

How to fund your CELTA course

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2016 8:50


In this podcast, we look at the best ways to fund a CELTA course, all around the world. See the full blog story here: http://www.studycelta.com/how-to-fund-your-celta-course

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