Elt Today: A Frameworks Education Podcast

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

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/GlobalI

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/

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

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

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/

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.

"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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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