Teacher Talking Time: The Learn YOUR English Podcast

Join our free support group for teachers building their business.  So many teachers feel they can't teach pronunciation if their speech doesn't sound a certain way. Listen to this episode to discover why that isn't true.  Robin Walker and Gemma Archer are pronunciation specialists who co-authored "Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World," which aims to encourage pronunciation instruction from a lingua franca and intelligibility perspective.  We chat with Robin & Gemma about: intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness why the Lingua Franca Core is what teachers should learn their disdain for Jennifer Jenkins' criticism of them - before realizing she was right how intelligibility is the thing that allows pronunciation to do its job weak forms and why they're not necessary for intelligibility  why the goal of international intelligibility doesn't exclude other goals how to measure intelligibility & use Linca Franca Core diagnostics with your students Grab their book here.  For more from Gemma: 1. Follow her on LinkedIn 2. The Scottish Sound School For more from Robin: 1. Follow him on LinkedIn 2. His website - Englishglobal.com As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 2. Just starting your business? Get free guidance in our support group.  3. Already have clients? Share your vision with us: book a free chat to strategize your business goals. 4. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

Find your niche & get 5 new clients. Start here.  Many teachers are wary of using a task-based approach. Learn how to overcome that and start using it in your business or classrooms.  Lara Bryfonski is an applied linguist and assistant professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on task-based language teaching and she is the Project Director of STARTALK-TASK, an NSA-funded task-based training program for critical language teachers. She recently co-authored the book The Art and Science of Language Teaching with Alison Mackey. In this episode, we chat with Lara about: if "TBLT" is a fad the myth that novice teachers can't handle TBLT why experienced teachers are often the most resistant to try it using a TBL approach within a strict syllabus  where grammar instruction fits into a TBL approach what a task is and isn't navigating a learner's internal syllabus  task design and how to apply it in your courses tomorrow Twitch, gaming, and asynchronous TBLT  her advice for aspiring TBLT practitioners  For more from Lara: 1. Connect on LinkedIn 2. Find her new book "The art and science of language teaching" 3. Read her published works  4. Her website As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 2. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  3. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 4. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  5. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 6. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy 7. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

Our 5in30 community helps you get 5 new clients in 30 days. Start here.  Donna M. Brinton is a methodologist, trainer, author, and distinguished figure in applied linguistics. A key aspect of Donna's work is her advocacy for Content-Based Instruction (CBI). Over her five decades in the field, she has authored and co-authored many books, including the famed "Apple Book." In this conversation, Donna expounds on: her beginnings as a teacher & her struggles with methodology why she decided to focus on methods as a point of emphasis content-based instruction and how it impacts language learning developing and using a CBI syllabus the 6 "t's" framework & the 3 CBI prototypes CBI case studies around the world the problem with minimal pairs and what can be done instead the future of methodology & teacher development For more from Donna, connect on LinkedIn As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 2. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  3. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 4. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  5. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 6. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy 7. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

Our 5in30 helps you get 5 new clients in 30 days. Start here.  Leo, Mike, and Andrew grab some nog, get in the holiday spirit, and chat about authenticity - Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023. We delve into what the word means to us and how we and anyone building a business can bring as much authenticity as possible into 2024.  Specifically, we dive into: LYE's beginnings our process and struggles with niching down why the response "teachers will love that" to our first offer was a bad answer the highs and lows of developing your own business the "do one thing" philosophy to business growth unconventional niche fusions  how you can develop sustainable practices in your business in 2024  Watch the Pharrell Williams/Maggie Rogers niche-fusion video mentioned in this episode.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 2. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  3. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 4. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  5. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 6. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy 7. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

We help teachers start their own online business for free. Click here to join in. Cecilia Nobre is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at Warwick, has been an EFL teacher for over 20 years, and is a trainer on DipTESOL, CertTESOL, and Celta trainer. She has co-authored the book "Using Video to Support Teacher Reflection and Development in ELT" with Steve Mann and Laura Baecher. Her research interests lie in the areas of teacher development, video reflection, and reflective practice. In this episode, Cecilia touches on: video-based observation as a form of development how videos can foster more critical reflection using video recordings in both the physical and digital classroom why every teacher should record their own lessons - and then watch them how video observation can be incorporated into pre-service training courses why video observation reduces the hierarchical relationship of traditional observation and how it can foster community building  advice for new educators just getting started  For more from Cecilia: 1. Follow her on LinkedIn 2. See her co-authored book "Using Video to Support Teacher Reflection and Development in ELT"  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. 5in30: Get 5 clients in the next 30 days 2. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  3. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 4. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  5. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 6. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy 7. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

We help teachers start their own business for free. Click here to join in. Geoff Jordan is a teacher, trainer, academic, and author. Geoff has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, has worked at ESADE, Barcelona for 28 years, and recently co-authored a book with the late Mike Long called "ELT Now and How It Could Be."His main academic interests are: theories of SLA, psycholinguistics, teaching practice and computational linguistics. Specifically, Geoff touches on: his beginnings in the ELT industry working alongside Mike Long, Peter Skehan and Henry Widdowson in the early days his new book "ELT Now and How It Could Be," co-written with the late Mike Long how commercialization has hurt the language industry why students should be angry after 300 hours of study when they still can't "go to the pub in London" why task-based learning is the only way to go why "presenting" language is inefficacious  how the future of the industry is in niche courses advising students to be more resourceful in their learning  listener questions More on Geoff: 1. Follow him on Twitter/X 2. Check out his website As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 3. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  4. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 5. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy 6. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

See our free CPD and business growth guides for teachers. Click here.  Paul Nation is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Victoria and a renowned author and scholar in our industry. He joins us for a discussion on learning, putting research into practice, and - of course - the four strands 27 years later.  Paul touches specifically on: his vocabulary niche the birth of the four strands how it's a basis for course construction, not lesson design how he learned Greek on a 2 hour flight why teachers who activate extensive reading in class are brave why teachers need to believe that by not teaching, people can learn the only 3 things that matter in learning if there is a fifth strand As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 3. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  4. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 5. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy 6. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish

Want to get your first 5 clients in the next 30 days? Click here.  Deep in the Dogme Days of Summer, Mike, Leo, and Andrew get into part 2 of their  series.  Here, we delve into: using Dogme in the scope of outcome-based instruction challenges implementing reactive teaching in different contexts obstacles in moving from a structured approach to teaching to one of transference using the "so you can" framework to get to the heart of your client's desired transformation handling student objections to Dogme utilizing self assessments and reflections so students gauge their own progress why your course needs guiding principles and how to create them approaching grammar as a choice, not as rules As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 3. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  4. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 5. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy

Click here to join our free teacherpreneur support community to grow together.  Andrew, Mike, and Leo sit down and ponder Dogme....as a new approach? It certainly has experienced a resurgence since the pandemic and we are curious why that is.  We also dive into: the role of the teacher the shift away from planning & towards reacting what authentic communication actually means how teachers can model lifelong learning habits using Dogme in your business and using the less is more philosophy As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 3. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  4. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 5. CPD: Teaching Listening Made Easy

Click here to join our free teacherpreneur support community to grow together.  Dylan was born just outside London and has been working in the ELT sector for nearly 25 years. About 12 years ago, he discovered Dogme, or as he prefers to call it “Teaching Unplugged”, and this led to his interest in deep-end learning approaches like TBLT and language coaching. When he trains teachers, he makes sure they learn how to move away from the coursebook and deal with emergent language. In this episode, he shines a light on: how freelancing led him to Dogme why he includes reactive teaching in his tool kit for the modern teacher the RDS method for dealing with emergent language key considerations for designing materials with a reactive mindset the future of ELT, AI, and how teachers can innovate More on Dylan: 1. Follow him on LinkedIn 2. Check out his website As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to chat about your business

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  And click here to check out The Chilled Investor to make your money work for you.  Nicola has been in ELT for over 20 years as a teacher, materials writer, and entrepreneur. She's written many coursebooks and over 200 pages of the British Council learning English website. More recently, she helps language teachers take control of their finances.  Her interest in investing came about almost by accident when she began looking at her own woeful finances and she now supplements her income through investing and runs a course for beginner investors at The Chilled Investor.  In this episode, Nicola dives into: how her childhood impacts her relationship with money why many teachers sweep finances under the rug what investing is and what it isn't demystifying limiting beliefs about investing why it's never too late how "desperation is the mother of research, self study, and self improvement" why precarity in our industry is more reason to invest in yourself, not less More on Nicola: 1. Follow her on LinkedIn 2. Check out her Chilled Investor program As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to chat about your business

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  Ken has been in ELT since 1995. A teacher, trainer, and author, he has written or co-written over 20 books, including the recently published Connections 3 coursebooks with Pearson. In this episode, he dives into the lexical approach, why it never caught on and how teachers can use it in their teaching. Specifically, we dive into:  how ELT has evolved  why Michael Lewis was "pissed" Dogme ELT & its place how teachers can decide which vocabulary to focus on in Dogme /TBLT  his CAT framework for Dogme the post/no methodology era  students making "great mistakes"  the Lexical Approach  the future of ELT and AI More on Ken: 1. Connect with him on Facebook 2. Download his resources on his website As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to chat about your business

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  Leo, Mike and Andrew return to the studio to discuss the most common challenges teacherpreneurs face. They get into the three hats that a teacherpreneur needs and how to build up each one. Specifically, they talk about: balancing the teacher, creator, and entrepreneur in you  teaching being the only profession where we feel guilty about earning more money why a lack of goal clarity means you won't move forward  perfectionism as an irrational fear  niching and eliminating competition  creating equity in your business  a system to charge more As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Get your own clients on social media right now 3. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 4. See our free guides for teachers  5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goal

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  Leo, Mike, and Andrew hop in the studio to record their annual year-end audit. Here, they reflect on the lessons they learned in 2022. They run through specific lessons that drive success, failure, and resilience. Specific lessons they touch on are: 1. It always takes longer than we think it's going to take 2. Behind mountains are more mountains 3. Knowing what success looks like 4. Starting small 5. Getting over the case of the "What ifs"  For the Indigenous Teachings book "Legends and Teachings of Xeel's The Creator" Mike mentioned in this episode, click here.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Get your own clients on social media right now 3. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 4. See our free guides for teachers  5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 

Grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.  Danny Norrington Davies and Richard Chinn have done extensive research on emergent language and have co-authored "Working with emergent language." Danny has over 25 years in the industry and is currently a CELTA and DELTA tutor. His first book "Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons" was a best-seller. Richard has trained teachers all over the world and currently does pre-service and in-service training courses at IH London. He is also an associate professor at King's College London.  In this episode, Danny & Richard discuss: the rise of emergent language why many were resistant to the idea the imbalance between research on error correction versus emergent language use  incidents that prevent language from emerging  the connections between emergent language and task-based learning how teachers can develop their "emergent language muscle" why the student's agenda supersedes the teacher's  how teachers can utilize emergent language even with beginners why they decided to write a book on emergent language More on Richard & Danny: Connect with Richard on LinkedIn Connect with Danny on LinkedIn Grab your copy of their book "Working with emergent language". See our blog post about this episode.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free support community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Get your own clients on social media right now 3. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 4. See our free guides for teachers  5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 

Join our free teacherpreneur community.  Katarina Mentzelopoulos is an ESRC-funded Ph.D. student at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include language learning motivation, exceptional language learning, multilingualism and learner identity. She recently co-authored two books with the late Zoltán Dörnyei: Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency (50% discount code STORIES50 until 30/11) Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency (50% discount code LESSONS50 until 31/10) The books tell the stories of people who achieved native-like proficiency against all odds. In this episode, Katarina discusses: what exceptionalism in language learning means the critical period hypothesis polyglots vs mastering a language how they selected participants for the books & their stories why native-like isn’t necessarily the standard and what is instead markedness versus proficiency why forming a bond with the language is integral working with Zoltán Dörnyei and his legacy Read more about this episode on the LYE blog.  More on Katarina Mentzelopoulos: Follow her on Twitter Book 1: Stories Book 2: Lessons As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Get your own clients on social media right now 2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 

Join our free teacherpreneur community. Chris Jacobs joins Mike and Andrew to talk about flow theory. Chris is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, teaching French, Italian, Spanish, and Linguistics. He is currently working on projects exploring learning optimization through flow - flow is a state of deep focus on an enjoyable activity that is at once challenging and accessible. Research on flow and language acquisition is increasing, and Chris is at the forefront of that.  In this episode, Chris dives into: what flow is and its balance between fun and relevance how the theory of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been adapted to language learning characteristics of flow experiences how tasks and TBLT are innate elements of flow activities that are more conducive to creating flow why flow and tasks are possible with all proficiency levels More on Chris Jacobs: His University of Nebraska Page His most recent publication on flow Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. See our free guides for teachers  2. TBLT Made Easy - tasks to your inbox! 3. Grow your business with us 4. Get a free tip in your inbox every week to grow your teaching business 5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals  6. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish  7. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel  

Join our free teacherpreneur community.  Leo, Mike, and Andrew talk about burnout in education, Learn YOUR English beginnings, their journey, and how teachers can overcome obstacles. Drawing parallels from stories presented in Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath - the beginning of French impressionism, why going to Harvard isn't necessarily an advantage, Ikea's controversial founding and more - they tackle how successful teaching businesses emerge from seeing advantages in disadvantages.  Specifically, they discuss: creating non-obvious solutions to obvious problems how to follow the path of most resistance why French impressionists decided to be big fish in a small pond Ikea as an example of the five-factor psychological model of successful enterprises delaying gratification as one of the most important tools for a teacherpreneur  how to exercise the idea muscle why becoming the person you want to be means challenging the person you currently are  Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. See our free guides for teachers  2. TBLT Made Easy - tasks to your inbox! 3. Grow your business with us 4. Receive a free teaching and business tip every week in your inbox 5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals  6. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish 

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  This is a very special episode of Teacher Talking Time, in partnership with the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. This episode was created as part of the final assessment of MA course "The CEFR in Context: Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research" by Prof. Dr. Marije Michel and Dr. Audrey Rousse-Malpat. We at Learn YOUR English are thrilled to be a part of it coming to life.  Episode Description: The CEFR is a useful tool for assessment and can be used to better align assessment across Europe. But is this what is actually happening? In this podcast episode, assessment and the CEFR in the Dutch school system will be discussed from the perspectives of experts in the field of research, secondary school teachers of English, and students studying to become teachers of English.  Interviewers: Lize Hofman. Gerbrich Dijkstra, and Mark van der Wijk are currently doing the Educational Master track for English at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Guests on this episode: Prof. Dr. Rick de Graaff works at the University Utrecht and teaches Foreign Language Didactics and Bilingual Education. His field of expertise is effective foreign language education, second language didactics, early foreign language education, and the professional development of language teachers. He has previously researched how the CEFR can effectively be implemented in second language education. Drs. Alessandra Corda is the head of modern language undergraduate teacher training departments at the Hogeschool Amsterdam (University of Applied Sciences) and has worked in the language education field for the past 25 years. She has also researched how to effectively implement the CEFR in second language education and is very knowledgeable about the assessment of language learning in education. Niels Amperse teaches English at a secondary school in the Netherlands. He is still in the early stages of his teaching career and followed CEFR classes during his training to become a teacher. He is interested in the development of secondary school students and has a refreshing view of second language learning in the Dutch educational system. Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Free Business Foundations Training 2. Free Dogme ELT Training 3. Get a free teaching and business tip every week 4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals  5. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish 

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  Anthony Gaughan is a teacher and teacher-trainer with over 25 years of experience working in the corporate, state secondary, higher education, and private adult education sectors. He is a Cambridge English approved Assessor and Main Course Tutor for the CELTA initial teacher training qualification, as well as a Tutor for the DELTA Module 2 and the Trinity Diploma. Together with his then-colleague, Izzy Orde, Anthony first applied Dogme ELT principles to running CELTA courses in 2009, and has been advocating for simplifying initial teacher education ever since. See his blog "Teacher Training Unplugged." In this episode, Anthony dives into: how a Japanese balloon pushed him towards Dogme teaching versus teaching-like behaviours transforming CELTA training into unprescribed, dogmatic experiences why he was called irresponsible and dangerous at IATEFL training as a suspension of disbelief debunking myths about beginner students, beginner teachers, and new beginnings Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More on Anthony Gaughan: Follow on LinkedIn His Blog Hamburg School of English Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: info@learnyourenglish.com  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Join Our Weekly Newsletter Join our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time