‘Who wants to get meta?’ asked Kyle. The 2018 Innovate ELT conference was once again a rewarding (don’t say fun!) day’s professional development. Rather than do a talk, I thought a live lesson with real learners would make a nice … Continue reading iELT2018: Listening, just for the phon of it
IH BCN ELT Conference 2018 Almost, but not quite a month has passed since the IH Barcelona 2018 conference – time enough for various work and life priorities to bump this talk write-up further down the to-do list. As in … Continue reading Stop, Collaborate & Listen.
Focus on the quality, rather than the amount of teacher talk in the classroom. Continue reading We need to talk about Teacher Talk
IATEFL Glasgow 2017 It was a good conference for listening and phonology, this. Standout sessions from John Field, Sheila Thorn, Richard Cauldwell, Mark Hancock. Sandy Millin’s given a great roundup over here, as ever. I was pleased to have a good audience for the final session on Friday – including some of the very people who inspired me to get more into listening and receptive phonology in the first place. As usual, the original ideas in the talk were rarely my own. Even the title – it’s lifted from an article by Richard Cauldwell. After a run through the background literature, and … Continue reading Grasping The Nettle
Shaun Sweeney Kicking off with a story of a misunderstanding based on mishearing, we looked at why the decoding gap and blur gap are important and deserve more attention in our listening lessons. Richard Caudwell’s metaphor of jungle listening served … Continue reading IH Barcelona ELT Conference 2017
“Getting Emerging language from the side of your board to the centre of the lesson.” Continue reading Moving from feedback to feeding forward
IATEFL Birmingham 2016 Developing Listening Skills: Lessons From Learning Shaun Sweeney It was a challenge to get through much in 20 minutes, as there were three of us squeezed into a forum on listening skills materials. I was chuffed, though, to be in a forum with someone like Annie McDonald, whose work I admire a good deal. She opened proceedings with a great talk on techniques and materials to use to develop listening skills. Her kitten earworm is still very much in my ears – as I’m sure it is yours if you were in attendance. ‘I know a little bit … Continue reading IATEFL Birmingham 2016
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