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Want to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.   Learner autonomy is something that happens INSIDE the classroom, not out of it. Teachers can't sit back and wait for their students to become autonomous. This is part of what the esteemed Dr. David Little shared with us in our conversation.  David Little is Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin and a le...

Want to monetize your skills as a teacher? Book a free 1:1 with us to see if we can help.   "It's  such social injustice to expect people to use English like native English speakers, whichever country they're in." We dive into this and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) with Jennifer Jenkins.  Jennifer Jenkins is a British linguist and academic. She was Chair Professor of Global Englishes at the Uni...

Book a complimentary meeting with us to help grow your business.  Learners can think a native teacher is a vaccine against poor pronunciation. Equally, native teachers can be misinformed in thinking that students should just follow them. We dive into pronunciation, intelligibility, and teacher effects on learner performance with the great John Levis.  John is Professor of Applied Linguistics and T...

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your goals for your  teaching business .  Native speaker or non-native speaker? Monolingual or plurilingual? Why do we have a binary bias in modern society? These are some of the questions we tackled with Dr. Angelica Galante.  Dr. Angelica Galante is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education and Applied Linguistics, and William Dawson Scholar at McGill Univ...

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your goals for your teaching business .  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   Why do some teachers thrive as entrepreneurs while others struggle? We dissect this question.  Many teachers want to earn more, teach online, and gain more clients - but struggle to implement a sustainable strategy. We go over seven "Cs" to help.  In this episode, w...

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Black Friday 2024: 50% off CPD (click here).  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   If you use vocabulary and grammar tests, you don't teach communicatively.  Audrey Rousse-Malpat tells us why.  Audrey Rousse-Malpat is an assistant professor in second language acquisition at the University of Groningen in the Net...

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   Education is designed around focusing on the learner first and the teacher as a medium to support the learner. Sarah Mercer tells us why this leads to unhealthy teachers.  Sarah Mercer is a Professor of foreign language teaching at the University of Graz, Austria. Her researc...

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   ELT is full of disasters, including the destruction of the communicative approach. Dr. Enrica Piccardo tells us why.  Dr. Piccardo is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her resear...

Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business goals.  Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   What do toad venom, the 5 stages of grief, and precarity all have in common? Andrew, Leo, and Mike explain.  Sustainability in the ELT industry as a teacher is pretty simple: 1. It is precarious 2. We all need to earn more money 3. It's unlikely to do that by having just one...

Escaping precarity in ELT? Join our free support group here.   Want to move faster? Book a free 1:1 to strategize your teaching business.  ELT provides the wrong input: language as it should be spoken not as it is spoken. This is wrong and Sheila Thorn gives us another way.  Sheila Thorn is a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer whose niche focuses on teaching listening. She founded The L...

Join our free support group for teachers building their business.  Grammar instruction or grammar learning? We dive into this with today's guests.  Tania Ionin is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of expertise include second language acquisition and experimental semantics, with a focus on the nomi...

Join our free support group for teachers building their business.  So many teachers focus on teaching when they should focus on something else. In this episode, we dive into this with the great Bill VanPatten.  Bill VanPatten is an award-winning scholar and teacher with an international reputation in the fields of second language acquisition and second language teaching. He is a requested speaker...

Join our free support group for teachers building their business.  So many teachers feel they can't teach pronunciation if their speech doesn't sound a certain way. Listen to this episode to discover why that isn't true.  Robin Walker and Gemma Archer are pronunciation specialists who co-authored " Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World, " which aims to encourage pronunciation instructi...

Find your niche & get 5 new clients. Start here.  Many teachers are wary of using a task-based approach. Learn how to overcome that and start using it in your business or classrooms.  Lara Bryfonski is an applied linguist and assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on task-based language teaching and she is the Project Director of STARTALK-TASK, an NSA...

Our 5in30 community helps you get 5 new clients in 30 days. Start here.  Donna M. Brinton is a methodologist, trainer, author, and distinguished figure in applied linguistics. A key aspect of Donna's work is her advocacy for Content-Based Instruction (CBI). Over her five decades in the field, she has authored and co-authored many books, including the famed "Apple Book." In this conversation, Donna...

Our 5in30 helps you get 5 new clients in 30 days. Start here.  Leo, Mike, and Andrew grab some nog, get in the holiday spirit, and chat about authenticity - Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023. We delve into what the word means to us and how we and anyone building a business can bring as much authenticity as possible into 2024.  Specifically, we dive into: LYE's beginnings our process and...

We help teachers start their own online business for free. Click here to join in. Cecilia Nobre is a Ph. D. student in Applied Linguistics at Warwick, has been an EFL teacher for over 20 years, and is a trainer on DipTESOL, CertTESOL, and Celta trainer. She has co-authored the book "Using Video to Support Teacher Reflection and Development in ELT" with Steve Mann and Laura Baecher. Her research in...

We help teachers start their own business for free. Click here to join in. Geoff Jordan is a teacher, trainer, academic, and author. Geoff has a Ph. D. in Second Language Acquisition, has worked at ESADE, Barcelona for 28 years, and recently co-authored a book with the late Mike Long called " ELT Now and How It Could Be." His main academic interests are: theories of SLA, psycholinguistics, teachin...

See our free CPD and business growth guides for teachers. Click here.  Paul Nation is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Victoria and a renowned author and scholar in our industry. He joins us for a discussion on learning, putting research into practice, and - of course - the four strands 27 years later.  Paul touches specifically on: his vocabulary niche the birth o...

Want to get your first 5 clients in the next 30 days? Click here.  Deep in the Dogme Days of Summer, Mike, Leo, and Andrew get into part 2 of their  series.  Here, we delve into: using Dogme in the scope of outcome-based instruction challenges implementing reactive teaching in different contexts obstacles in moving from a structured approach to teaching to one of transference using the "so you can...

Click here to join our free teacherpreneur support community to grow together.  Andrew, Mike, and Leo sit down and ponder Dogme....as a new approach? It certainly has experienced a resurgence since the pandemic and we are curious why that is.  We also dive into: the role of the teacher the shift away from planning & towards reacting what authentic communication actually means how teachers can...

Click here to join our free teacherpreneur support community to grow together.  Dylan was born just outside London and has been working in the ELT sector for nearly 25 years. About 12 years ago, he discovered Dogme, or as he prefers to call it “Teaching Unplugged”, and this led to his interest in deep-end learning approaches like TBLT and language coaching. When he trains teachers, he makes sure t...

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  And click here to check out The Chilled Investor to make your money work for you.  Nicola has been in ELT for over 20 years as a teacher, materials writer, and entrepreneur. She's written many coursebooks and over 200 pages of the British Council learning English website. More recently, she helps language teachers take c...

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  Ken has been in ELT since 1995. A teacher, trainer, and author, he has written or co-written over 20 books, including the recently published Connections 3 coursebooks with Pearson. In this episode, he dives into the lexical approach, why it never caught on and how teachers can use it in their teaching. Specifically, we d...

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  Leo, Mike and Andrew return to the studio to discuss the most common challenges teacherpreneurs face. They get into the three hats that a teacherpreneur needs and how to build up each one. Specifically, they talk about: balancing the teacher, creator, and entrepreneur in you  teaching being the only profession where we f...