The Teflology Podcast

Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. Today, we bring you our third of four episodes recorded as part of our Diversity through Interaction forum at the 2018 JALT conference. In this episode, Rob interviews plenary conference speaker Judith B. O'Loughlin. Judith is an independent education consultant focussing on areas such as differentiated instruction, instructional strategies, and formative assessment. At the JALT2018, she gave a plenary presentation titled Three Strategies for Fostering Learner Resilience.  More information about Judith and her work can be found here. Enjoy the interview! --- Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers can be purchased here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email: Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website: Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube: Stream all of ou

Welcome back to The TEFlology Podcast – A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. Today, we bring you our second of four episodes recorded as part of our ‘Diversity through Interaction’ forum at the 2018 JALT conference. In this episode, Matt spoke to featured conference speaker Dat Bao. Dr Dat Bao is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include curriculum development, world-related learning, intercultural education, and creative pedagogy in language education; a topic which is featured in today’s conversation. Dat’s books include 2015’s Understanding Silence and Reticence: Ways of Participating in Second Language Acquisition, and the forthcoming edited collection Creativity and Innovations in ELT Materials Development: Looking Beyond the Current Design. More information about Dat and his work can be found here. Enjoy the interview. - - - Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for Engli

Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast - A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. Today, we bring you our first podcast of 2019, and our first of four episodes recorded as part of our Diversity through Interaction forum at the 2018 JALT conference. In this episode, Matthew interviews invited conference speaker Mehrasa Alizadeh. Mehrasa is a soon-to-be PhD graduate from the School of Information Science and Technology, at Osaka University. Her research interests include online course design, development and quality assessment, as well as AR and VR applications in language teaching, which is the main topic of today’s interview. More information about Mehrasa and her work can be found here.  Enjoy the interview! --- Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers can be purchased here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email: Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website: Listen to previous episodes, fi

Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast! A podcast all about teaching English as foreign language and related matters.  Today we are pleased to bring you an interview with Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele.  Jean-Marc is a professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London.  His various research interests include multilingualism, multiculturalism, as well as individual differences in foreign language acquisition and production.  His publications include the co-authored Raising multilingual children, written in 2017, 2013’s Emotions in multiple languages, and New Trends in Crosslinguistic Influence and Multilingualism Research, written with Gessica De Angelis.  Matthew got the chance to speak to Jean-Marc at the 3rd Psychology of Language Learning conference, held at Waseda University in Tokyo, in June of 2018. Matthew asked questions to Jean-Marc about topics related to multilingualism, such as raising multilingual children. We hope you enjoy the interview.  More information about Jean

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast – a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In episode 85, Rob leads a discussion on CONTEXT, Matt reviews a news article on CLIMATE CHANGE and language loss, and Matthew introduces JAMES HAMILTON.  Enjoy the episode! Information on James Hamilton can be found here. Matt's news article can be read here.  'Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers' can be bought here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email – Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website – Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube – Stream all of our episodes. Facebook – Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter – Follow us and retweet us. iTunes – Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud / TuneIn / iheart Radio and more!

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast – a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Matt discusses the concept of TEFL TOURISM, Matthew reflects on the recent changes to UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMS in Japan, and Rob talks about the life and work of JOHAN STORM.  Enjoy!   More information about TEFL Tourism can be found here, and more information about Johan Storm can be accessed here.  Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email – Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website – Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube – Stream all of our episodes. Facebook – Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter – Follow us and retweet us. iTunes – Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud / TuneIn / iheart Radio a

Welcome back to The TEFLology Podcast – a podcast all about teaching English as foreign language and related matters. In this episode, we bring you an interview with Dr. Christina Gkonou. Christina is a senior lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex in England. Her research interests include psychology of foreign language learning and teaching, language teacher agency and identity, and language teacher and learner emotions – the topic of this interview. Matt spoke to Christina in June 2018 during her trip to Japan, where she was a plenary speaker at the JALT Teacher Development SIG’s Teacher Journeys conference.  We hope you enjoy the interview! More information about Christina can be found here.  Email us at teflology@gmail.com / Facebook / Twitter Listen to more episodes at www.teflology-podcast.com  Support our podcast by buying our book Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language teachers from Amazon. Available in paperback and e-book.

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, we bring you a recording of a presentation we recently gave at JALT's College and University Educators (CUE) conference, at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.  The title of our presentation was 'Back to the Future (of ELT): Discussing and Understanding the Field's History.'  More information about the conference can be found here. - - - Buy our book - Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email - Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website - Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube - Stream all of our episodes. Facebook - Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter - Follow us and retweet us. iTunes - Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Matt and Matthew (no Rob) sit down and chat with Thomas S. C. Farrell. Matt and Matthew talked with Tom about a session that attended of his the previous week.  More information about Tom can be found here.  Our previous episode with him can be listened to here. - - - Buy our e-book - Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email - Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website - Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube - Stream all of our episodes. Facebook - Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter - Follow us and retweet us. iTunes - Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud / TuneIn / iheart Radio and more!

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 with Dr. Ema Ushioda. Ema is the director of the Centre of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include language, culture and identity, and particularly motivational perspectives on engaging with different languages and cultures, as well as issues of motivation and autonomy in language learning and their implications for classroom practice and teacher education. She has authored books including Teaching and Researching Motivation, with Zoltan Dornyei, and edited books including International Perspectives on Motivation. Rob got the chance to speak to Ema at the 3rd Psychology of Language Learning conference, held at Waseda University in Tokyo, earlier this summer. Rob asked questions to Ema about motivation research. We hope you enjoy the interview. More information about Dr. Ema Ushioda can be found here.   Buy our e-book -

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Matt introduces the life and work of SANDRA SAVIGNON, Matthew discusses the idea of FUN in the language class, and Rob talks FILIPINO TEACHERS IN CHINA. Enjoy! Here is a link to the news article from Rob's section Information about Sandra Savignon can be found here. - - - Buy our e-book - Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email - Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website - Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube - Stream all of our episodes. Facebook - Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter - Follow us and retweet us. iTunes - Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud / TuneIn / iheart Radio and more!

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Matt reviews an article about LANGUAGE POLICY, Matthew introduces the life and work of FREDERIC G. CASSIDY, and Rob talks about doing DUOETHNOGRAPHIC PROJECTS in the language classroom. Enjoy! The article Matt reviewed is here: https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article-abstract/72/3/249/4924747 Here is a link to Rob's article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322330513_Duoethnographic_Projects_in_the_Language_Class Information about Frederic G. Cassidy can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_G._Cassidy - - - Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email - Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website - Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube - Stream all of our episodes. Fa

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 with Dr. Simon Borg. Simon is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds, and principally works as an ELT consultant. The main focus of his consultancy and academic work today is professional development for English language teachers.  Simon specialises in teacher education and professional development, teacher research, and research methods. Matthew spoke with Simon in a cafe in Tokyo earlier this Spring. Simon was in Japan to give a presentation titled 'Taking Stock: An Analysis of the Contemporary Status of Language Teacher Cognition Research,' a topic of which this interview is largely based on.  More information about Simon can be found here. Simon can be contacted at - s.borg@education.leeds.ac.uk Buy our e-book - Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. To find other great titles, visit The Round. Email 

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Matthew reviews an article about the DOMINANCE of the ENGLISH language, Rob reflects on the life and work of ANDY KIRKPATRICK, and Matt leads a discussion about POLYGLOTS.  Enjoy! The article Matthew refers to can be read here. More information on Andy Kirkpatrick can be fond here. Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email - Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website - Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube - Stream all of our episodes. Facebook - Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter - Follow us and retweet us. iTunes - Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud / TuneIn / iheart Radio and more!

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Rob talks about Google Translation uses at the recent World Cup, Matt reflects on the work of Jim Cummins, and Matthew leads a discussion on Critical Thinking. Enjoy! The news article Rob refers to can be read here. More information on Jim Cummins can be fond here. Nigel Caplan's thoughts on Critical Thinking here. Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email – Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website – Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube – Stream all of our episodes. Facebook – Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter – Follow us and retweet us. iTunes – Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. Also available on Acast / Stitcher Radio / SoundCloud / TuneIn /

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 with Dr. Victoria Clark.  Victoria has worked as the East Asia Assessment Development Manager for East Asia, for the British Council based in Hong Kong.  Her field of expertise is the assessment of English as a second/foreign language, with her research interests including performance-based testing, teaching and assessing writing, validity of speaking tests, and task complexity. She has published several books on General English Proficiency test preparation and is an experienced conference speaker.  Matthew spoke with Victoria at the 53rd RELC International Conference, that took place in Singapore earlier this Spring. In the the interview, Matthew asked questions to Victoria about her work in language assessment development, and about this area of interest.  More from Victoria can be found here. Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Gui

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, Matthew talks about the Oxford English Dictionary's attempts to incorporate more regional varieties in their dictionaries, Matt leads a discussion on SEN (Special Educational Needs) in ELT, and Rob talks about the contribution that Thomas M. Paikeday has made to our field. Enjoy! Matt's news article can be read here. Rob's reflective article on Thomas M. Paikeday can be read here. For information on SEN, see this link.   Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email – Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website – Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube – Stream all of our episodes. Facebook – Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter – Follow us and retweet us. iTune

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode we are joined by Richard Pinner, who talks to us about Complexity as a research paradigm, Rob leads a discussion on the so-called 'linguaphobia' being felt in Britain, and Matthew reflects on the life of the late pioneer M.A.K Halliday. Thanks for listening!  More information on Richard can be found here. His last appearance on the show was episode 11! The news article Rob is referring to can be found here. Tributes to M.A.K Halliday can be read here.  Buy our e-book – Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers here. For other great titles, visit The Round. Email – Ask us questions, give us feedback, tell us what you think of the show. Website – Listen to previous episodes, find out more information about us and the podcast. YouTube – Stream all of our episodes. Facebook – Like and share our page with your colleagues or friends. Twitter – F

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 interview episode.  The following interview features me talking to Eric Hawkinson. Eric is Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Fukuchiyama in Kyoto, and coordinator of JALT’s Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Realities in Learning Special Interest Group, topics of which are discussed in this interview.  This interview was recorded at the JALT PanSIG conference, that took place in Tokyo earlier this month. The PanSIG conference celebrates the work of the many special interest groups that makes up the larger professional association.  The interview was part of the Teacher Development SIG’s forum I helped to organise titled “Exploring The Role That SIGs Play in Teacher Development: Three Interviews.”  We’d like to thank Eric for giving his permission to share this interview, and to the other participants and attendees of the forum. E

Welcome to The TEFLology Podcast - a podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language, and related matters. In this episode, we bring you an interview with Gary Barkhuizen.  Gary is Professor and current Head of School in the Faculty of Arts at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Gary has co-authored books including Analysing Learning Language, and Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad, and edited books including Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research; a title and topic that is a feature of the following interview. Gary’s research interests include Language teacher education, teacher identity, study abroad, and studies that use narrative inquiry and other qualitative methodologies. Rob and Matt recorded this interview in February at New York University’s School of Professional Studies in Tokyo, before Gary gave a presentation for JALT’s Tokyo Chapter. We’d like to thank the staff at the school for allowing us to use their facilities to record this interview, and for JA