TTELT: Teaching Tips for English Language Teachers

Join us to hear Dawud Hill, Community Teacher Trainer with RefugeeEd and We/Educate, UK, as he describes working with refugees in European refugee camps as a teacher trainer. Dawud says that working with refugees has changed his life and if you’d like to get involved you can contact him on LinkedIn. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Pooja Sancheti, a teacher at the Centre for Preparatory Studies, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, as she describes why students and teachers use AI and how you can use AI more effectively with your students. She says that AI is not going away, it’s going to stay and everyone should embrace it. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Amel Benaissa, a teacher and researcher at Mouloud Mammeri University, Algeria, as she describes why teachers need to develop self-regulation strategies. She gives some tips for how teachers can learn how to control their emotions so they do not suffer from too much stress and burnout at work. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Noureddine Charif, an ESL Instructor, Newton's Grove School, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, as he explains how to incorporate AI into Task Based Language Teaching by using Microsoft’s Copilot to help craft lessons, sample essays, and assessment rubrics. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Wyndell Williams, English Language Support Teacher at Tsinghua International School in Beijing, China, as he describes how to develop and use culturally responsive strategies for inclusive language education. He gives some examples of ways that teachers can make every student feel welcome and that they have something to offer. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Milsania Lopez, Dean of University of Santiago, Cuba, as she shares techniques for motivating pre-service teachers to become teachers of the English Language. She shares ways to motivate teachers to become teachers of English.

Based in Colombia, Gustavo Valiente shares an effective technique to engage students in communication! Discover their interests and adapt your topic and grammar to fit their interests. This technique provides intrinsic motivation for speaking. 

Join us to hear Juan Carlos Domingez, based in Cuba, as he shares an innovative technique of integrating radio into the English classroom. He shares weekly idiomatic expressions in the context of a conversation. Students are challenged to deduce the meanings of idioms from English-speaking countries around the world. Radio Metropolitana Havana

Join us to hear Dr. Pankaj Mehrotra, an English teacher from Delhi, India, as he discusses conventional and virtual learning spaces and how they affect teacher–student and student–student interactions in the classroom.

Join us to hear Sharifa Djurabaeva, an English teacher originally from Uzbekistan, who is currently teaching beginning newcomer high school students in Massachusetts. Sharifa will discuss the challenges she has faced and how she is meeting them.  Discover new resources and ideas that may help you in a similar teaching situation.

Join us to hear Dilia Topham, a veteran Teacher-Trainer, currently working in Dushanbe,Tajikistan for the American Council, as she describes the Experiential Learning Cycle and gives examples of how it can be used by teachers and teacher-trainees for self-assessment and improvement.

Join us to hear Dr Arum Perwitasari, Academic Relations Lead at ETS Global, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as she describes how to integrate reading or listening activities into speaking activities for English for Academic Purposes. She gives some examples of integrated tasks that teachers can use to teach academic speaking. Listen to hear more! #academicenglish #languageeducation #languagea...

Join us to hear Peter Holly, a freelancer based in Hungary, as he describes how to teach environmentalism and sustainability in English Language Teaching. He gives teachers tips and ideas on how to incorporate sustainability and climate change in every ELT lesson, from the intro to regular classroom practices. Listen to hear more! #environment #languageeducation #climatechange #sustainability #tas...

Join us to hear Dr Mohamed Benhima, an assistant professor in the English Department of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, as he describes quantitative research methodology and statistical data analysis in language education. He explains how quantitative data can be collected and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help with data analysis. Listen to hear more! #research #languageeducation #...

Join us to hear Dr Sapna Dileesh, Head of Foundation at the Oman Dental College in Muscat, Oman, as she shares how she uses gamification in the ESL classroom. She discusses some things that a teacher needs to consider while incorporating gamification in the ESL classroom as well as the advantages and disadvantages of gamification. She also mentions some Edtech tools available for teachers who want...

Join us to hear Philip McCarthy, Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, as he shares Auto-Peer, an automated feedback system designed to facilitate student writing and student feedback literacy. He explains how Auto-Peer helps student writers and shares feedback from students and colleagues. Listen to hear more! #writing #taskbasedlearning #onlinelearn...

Join us to hear Anastasia Khawaja, an adjunct professor in the Department of English at the University of South Florida,as she shares how she implemented linguistic landscape in her teaching units in Israel. She discusses how to use linguistic landscape to start difficult conversations in a region of conflict and how we can explore language representation and language use to dig beyond what we mig...

Join us to hear Eyhab Yaghi, a lecturer in the English department in the College of Education at Majmaah University in Saudi Arabia,as he shares with us the online reading dispositions students use to enable more effective online learning . He discusses several different online reading dispositions used by students and describes how they can be harnessed to motivate students to read and learn onli...

Join us to hear Fatia Jellad, a secondary school teacher in Tunisia who recently obtained her PhD in Cultural Studies, as she shares with us how to use blogs to motivate students to write in English. She discusses the steps for implementing blogs in the classroom and what makes them an effective tool for writing instruction. She also mentions some of the challenges teachers might face when impleme...

Join us to hear Kasia Truszkowsky, founder and owner of My Oxford English Academy in Oxford, England, as she shares with us how to use reconstruction tasks to teach academic writing. She discusses tips for minimizing teacher preparation time and sharing best practices for producing effective writing lessons.  Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Rasha Halat, Assistant Professor at the Lebanese International University, as she shares with us how to use authentic materials to motivate students. She describes why its a good idea to use authentic materials and how to motivate students by using them.  Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Shahab Moradkhani, Associate Professor of TESOL at Razi University in Kermanshah, Iran, as he shares with us the topic English as an International Language. He describes the basic principles of English as an International Language and shares suggestions for dealing with the related theoretical and practical controversies.  Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Hannah Haase, language teacher, author, and pedagogical mentor at Robotel, as she shares with us how to motivate students to actually speak in English in class. She describes different ways teachers can do recording activities, kinesthetic activities, games focused on listening, and games focusing on speaking. Listen to hear more!

Join us to hear Gulnorakhon Niyazova, senior  teacher of English as EFL at Alisher Navai University of Uzbek Language and Literature in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as she describes why it’s important for teachers to attend international conferences. She talks about how teacher can upgrade their teaching skills and get new ideas for different ways to teach.  Listen to hear more! 

Join us to hear Maria Zaheer, the founder of Educational Webinar Jam and a Senior Fellow in Higher Education, based at Al Yamama University in Saudi Arabia, as she shares best practices for optimizing teacher-to-teacher collaboration both within and across university departments. She describes how teacher-to-teacher collaboration proves to be an effective tool for professional development for educ...