Delivering development

In this episode of "Delivering Development," Kevin and Laura discuss implicit and explicit knowledge in language acquisition. Laura shares insights from her study on implicit instruction and its effectiveness in developing implicit knowledge of target language structures. The conversation explores Laura's experimental intervention, which utilized "input flooding" and varied instructional modes to foster subconscious learning of complex grammatical forms. The discussion also touches upon the teacher's role in facilitating implicit learning.

Kevin and Laura focus on the evolving impact of Artificial Intelligence on language teaching and assessment, exploring both the opportunities and challenges it presents for educators and students. The discussions highlight how AI can be a tool for efficiency (e.g., generating feedback), but also raise concerns about critical thinking, academic integrity, and adapting traditional teaching and assessment methods to a rapidly changing technological landscape. Ultimately, the podcasts emphasize the necessity for language teachers to understand and adapt to AI's presence in education to ensure continued professional relevance and effective student learning.

Join Kevin, Laura and Neil as they continue their series of podcasts about language teaching in the context of Artificial Intelligence, this time looking at general issues and also tackling the crucial topic of what AI means for assessment in language teaching! We're in a fascinating time of transition, and the conversation explores the challenges and opportunities AI presents. How do we navigate AI's impact on generating content for assessments? What are some potential negatives around integrating AI?

In part two of their series on AI's impact on language teaching, Kevin, Laura and Neil focus on using AI to do things that weren't possible before, rather than doing the same things using AI. The episode ends with a compelling student success story. Plus, thoughts on educational policy and the unique role of language teachers in the age of AI.

In Episode 29 of the Delivering Development Podcast, Kevin, Laura  and Neil give a general overview of the impact of AI on language teaching. We also discuss in general terms how educators can adapt their teaching methods during this transitional period to ensure students still get the most out of their learning. This includes a few examples of integrating AI as a learning tool while recognizing its limitations. Is AI a 'bad friend' offering dodgy advice? The next episode will look in more detail at what educators can do to adapt.

In this episode, Kevin, Laura and Neil start with a discussion about flipped learning and then move on to some of the fundamentals of how to approach blended learning design. In a shock move, Kevin, Laura and Neil also agreed on something.

The 27th episode of Delivering Development, our podcast on continuing professional development for language teachers and administrators, takes an initial, high-level, look at AI and its impact on the languages field.

In this edition we continued with a discussion of some terms relating to blended learning, in a possibly vain attempt to gain some clearer idea of what some of the terms mean and, indeed, whether they are useful or just confuse the issue.

Earlier this year I was interviewed by Ruth Pringle as part of her project to match learners to teachers in a very targeted way. I liked the idea, but particularly liked the way we got talking about language professionals working together and helping each other rather than competing against each other. So, I asked her to come along to our podcast so we could talk more about it.

Today, the plan was to look at some of the terminology around blended learning. We did a decent job on “flipped learning”, I think, but that was all we had time for! We did cover some interesting ground on the nature of blended learning as well though.

An episode on the difficult area of teaching listening with guest Anthony Green. This is definitely a subject we are going to follow-up on!

The first of a regular series of episodes revolving around blended learning to address the need to better understand some of the fundamentals of this aspect of language teaching. We start with an overview of the field.

A short solo episode to get back in the saddle and also to publicise my interview with Ruth Pringle.

A combination of family holidays, workload, building work at home and a lot of editing means that this episode recorded at the IATEFL conference in Belfast in May is only now being published in November 2022! However, it was a really interesting, wide-ranging chat with Kevin, Neil and Pete together face-to-face for the first time for a podcast recording.

This edition is a special interview with Rachael Roberts. It seems to me that many articles, presentations etc. I have experienced about mental health put the affected person in the position of a passive adapter to a bad situation, one that is usually caused by an external agent such as an employer. The advice is to practice, for example, mindfulness, to help cope with that bad situation. That seemed wrong to me and I was interested to hear Rachael's take on it.

A concluding episode for 2021 in our podcast for language professionals. Kevin and Laura talk about some potential positive effects for the industry.

After a bit of a break over the summer (and autumn!), we finally managed to get everyone together for the promised follow-up to our panel discussion on professional development at the IATEFL 2021 annual conference.

Vocabulary is the theme for our latest podcast for language professionals. Our name for this edition is "croissants and cauliflowers". You will have to listen to find out why, but we had a lot of fun recording it.

In this episode of our podcast for for language-teaching professionals, we consider some of the issues around teaching pronunciation,

This episode of the podcast for language teaching professionals concludes a three-part series on assessment. In this episode we look at some aspects such as specifications, working with others and simple analyses and why they are important in the real world of teaching.