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TEFL Interviews 36: Reiko Yoshihara (JALT 2017)

The TEFLology Podcast - December 20, 2017 09:06 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast – A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. Today we bring you the first of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum ‘Global Educators, Local Connections,’ at the JALT2017 conference in Tsukuba, Japan.  In...

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TEFL Interviews 35: Steve Mann (JALT 2017)

The TEFLology Podcast - December 06, 2017 06:29 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast – A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. Today we bring you the first of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum ‘Global Educators, Local Connections,’ at the JALT2017 conference in Tsukuba, Japan.  In...

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Episode 69: Working Conditions, Learning Styles, and The British Council

The TEFLology Podcast - November 22, 2017 11:33 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Rob discusses teacher working conditions, Matt reviews the recent debate on learning styles, and Matthew asks to think about The British Council as this epi...

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Episode 68: John Dewey, Collaborative Writing, and Translation Technology

The TEFLology Podcast - November 09, 2017 00:31 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Matt talks about the work of American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey, Rob discusses collaborative writing, and Matthew reviews some of the ...

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TEFL Interviews 34: Mario Saraceni on World Englishes

The TEFLology Podcast - October 26, 2017 00:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters! Today we are very happy to bring you an interview with Professor Mario Saraceni. The interview was conducted in Chichester, on the south coast of England earlier this summer...

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Episode 67: Cambridge Main Suite Exams, Mental Health, and The Committee of 12

The TEFLology Podcast - October 11, 2017 06:38 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Matthew charts the history of the Cambridge Main Suite exams, Matt leads a discussion on the mental health issues in ELT, and Rob introduces The Committee o...

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Episode 66: Research Relevance for Teachers, Textbooks, and Lambert Sauveur

The TEFLology Podcast - September 27, 2017 06:47 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Rob reviews a debate about the relevance or irrelevance of academic research for English language reachers. Matt leads a discussion about the use of textboo...

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TEFL Interviews 33: Masaki Oda on ELF Education

The TEFLology Podcast - September 13, 2017 07:57 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. Today we are very happy to bring you an interview with Professor Masaki Oda. The interview was conducted at Tamagawa University in Machida, near Tokyo, Japan, where Professor...

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Episode 65: Peter Strevens, English Learning Ventures, and Post-human Applied Linguistics

The TEFLology Podcast - August 30, 2017 08:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Matthew shares information about some new English learning ventures, Matt discusses the life and work of Peter Strevens, and Rob unpacks Post-human Applied ...

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Episode 64: ELF Revisited, L.A. Hill, and Interview Voices

The TEFLology Podcast - August 17, 2017 00:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Matthew revisits the topic of ELF, Rob reveals the life and work of L.A. Hill, and Matt reviews a study about how perceptions of status alter one's voice pi...

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TEFL Interviews 32: Chia Suan Chong & Mike Hogan on International Communication

The TEFLology Podcast - August 02, 2017 05:01 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. Today we bring you an interview recorded at the independent ExciteELT conference held in Tokyo in June, with two of the invited speakers Chia Suan Chong and Mike Hogan. Chia...

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Episode 63: Dictionary Update, Sustained Learning, and Pāṇini

The TEFLology Podcast - July 19, 2017 06:53 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Rob reviews the latest updates to the Oxford English dictionary, Matt explores the ideas of sustained learning, and Matthew talks about the life and work of...

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Episode 62: English-only Policies, Leo Van Lier, and ELTons2017

The TEFLology Podcast - July 05, 2017 03:36 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Matthew reviews the ELTons2017 awards, Rob leads a discussion on English-only policies, and Matt talks about the work of Leo Van Lier. Please enjoy this e...

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TEFL Interviews 31: Jennifer Jenkins on Global Englishes

The TEFLology Podcast - June 21, 2017 09:14 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Today we are delighted to bring you an interview with Professor Jennifer Jenkins. The interview was conducted at the University of Southampton in the south of England, where Jennifer is the Chair of Global Englishes and Director of the Centre for Global Englishes.  Jennifer’s main research int...

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Episode 61: Job Interviews, Eilhard Lubinus, and Conference Review

The TEFLology Podcast - June 06, 2017 23:32 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, Matt reflects on his experience of attending a conference, Rob charts the contribution of Eilhard Lubinus to the field, and Matthew brings up the topic of j...

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Episode 60: Young Learner Materials with the 'Let's Go' Authors

The TEFLology Podcast - May 24, 2017 06:07 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as foreign language, and related matters.  This episode features a conversation between Matt and three of the four authors of the Let’s Go series for young learners of English - Ritsuko Nakata, Karen Frazier Tsai and ...

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TEFL Interviews 30: John Kullman on Critical Issues in ELT Textbooks

The TEFLology Podcast - May 10, 2017 03:29 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  We're pleased to be bringing you our 30th interview episode, featuring Dr. John Kullman. John is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of English and Language Studies at ...

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Episode 59: Tim Johns, TEFL Exchange, and CAP

The TEFLology Podcast - April 26, 2017 06:16 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode Matt talks about Tim Johns' contribution to teaching and learning (with the help of John Higgins), Matthew reviews the TEFL Exchange website, and Rob descri...

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Episode 58: TESOL 2017 Convention & Miguel Mendoza

The TEFLology Podcast - April 12, 2017 11:11 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode Rob and Matt ask questions to Matthew about his experience of participating at the TESOL2017 International Convention in Seattle in March. While Matthew was...

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Episode 57: Contrastive Analysis, Robert Lowth, and Linguistic Injustice

The TEFLology Podcast - March 15, 2017 09:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  In this episode, the three TEFLologists find out about Contrastive Analysis, talk about the work of bishop and grammarian Robert Lowth, and discuss the debate about linguist...

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Episode 56: Donald Trump, Assessment, and John Locke

The TEFLology Podcast - March 01, 2017 10:52 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. In episode 56, the TEFLologists discuss the beliefs of philosopher John Locke, think about language assessment and testing, and take a look at some TESOL organisation press r...

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TEFL Interviews 29: Anne Burns on Action Research

The TEFLology Podcast - February 15, 2017 02:44 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to TEFLology - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. Today we bring you an interview with Professor Anne Burns from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Anne has written extensively about Action Research (AR) in ELT, including 201...

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BONUS Episode 55: A Duoethnography by Marek Kiczkowiak & Robert Lowe

The TEFLology Podcast - February 08, 2017 06:44 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. In this bonus episode, Rob and Marek Kiczkowiak present an audio version of their recently published duoethnographic study: Native-speakerism and the complexity of personal e...

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Episode 54: Toki Pona, Duoethnography, and Robert Gardner

The TEFLology Podcast - February 01, 2017 06:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters. In episode 54, the TEFLologists take a look at the minimal language of Toki Pona - devised by Sonja Lang, think about the research method of Duoethnography, and discuss the w...

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Episode 53: Wilga M. Rivers, Female Dialogue in Films, and Teaching Organizations

The TEFLology Podcast - January 18, 2017 10:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters!  In this episode, the TEFLologists discuss Wilga M. Rivers' contribution to the field of English teaching, the amount of male and female dialogue in recent films and textboo...

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TEFL Interviews 28: BONUS! Forum Discussion (Live at JALT 2016)

The TEFLology Podcast - January 11, 2017 04:57 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  Today we bring you a bonus podcast episode, a recording of the interviewee and audience discussion/Q&A that took place after our interviews at our forum - 'Teacher Interview...

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TEFL Interviews 27: JD Brown (Live at JALT 2016)

The TEFLology Podcast - January 03, 2017 11:55 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  Today we bring you the final of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum 'Teacher Interviews: Stories of Transformation,' at the JALT2016 conference in Nagoya.  ...

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TEFL Interviews 26: Ryuko Kubota (Live at JALT 2016)

The TEFLology Podcast - December 20, 2016 23:28 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  Today we bring you the second of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum 'Teacher Interviews: Stories of Transformation,' at the JALT2016 conference in Nagoya.  ...

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TEFL Interviews 25: Sarah Mercer (Live at JALT 2016)

The TEFLology Podcast - December 07, 2016 08:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.  Today we bring you the first of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum 'Teacher Interviews: Stories of Transformation,' at the JALT2016 conference in Nagoya.  ...

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Episode 52: Transformation, Interviewing, and JALT2016

The TEFLology Podcast - November 23, 2016 01:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast!  In this episode, the TEFLologists gear up for their forum at JALT2016 conference, which takes place in Nagoya at the end of November, by discussing the conference theme of transformation, and the processes behind conducting interviews. The TEFLologisits ...

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