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Teacher Talking Time — 100 episodes
The Accent Reduction Myth: What Actually Makes You Easy to Understand - Tracey Derwing
When Safe Isn't Enough: Navigating Risk, Anxiety, and Career Pivots - Andrew Woodbury
Why Learning is an Action, Not a Finished Product - Leo Gomez
The Secret to Duplicating Yourself and Moving from Freelancer to Founder - Zoe Smith
You Can’t Teach a Syllabus (And Why Accuracy-first is Killing Enrollment) - Matt Coss
Product Problems: Why Most EdTech Founders Fail to Scale [and how you can avoid that trap] - Kate Bodrova
Inside the Black Box: What Actually Happens When Learners Communicate using TBLT? - Jonathan Newton
Why Launching a Business is Scarier Than Skydiving - Martina Monreal
The Assessment Trap: The Radical Assessment Shift That Actually Creates Fluency - Charline Rouffet
1.5 Million YouTube Subscribers Later: The Truth About Money - Jennifer Lebedev
The End of Traditional ELT: Why Teachers Must Unlearn Everything - Evan Frendo
The Imposter Syndrome Trap: The Psychological Reason You’re Not Charging What You’re Worth [and how to fix it] - Catherine Angus
You Can't NOT Teach Grammar (And Why We’re Doing It Wrong) - Caitlyn Pineault
Don't go Viral: The real keys to creating IMPACTFUL content - Laura Wilkes
There's a problem with the word "INCLUSION." We should use THIS instead - Ben Goldstein
The biggest risk isn't being WRONG, it's being CONFUSED - John Healy
You'll never feel ready: do you want to build a teaching business or not? - Mariela Mondaca
Can learning apps REALLY support language learning? The research may be surprising - Shawn Loewen
It's magical to feel PROUD of something you created - Anna Aleksenko
Kids do NOT learn languages faster than adults. That's a MYTH - Dr. Karen Lichtman
You need to master the art of self-reinvention - Jessica Dias
Is a TRULY task-based curriculum possible? - Claudia Fernandez
Practice is the Price: What Teaching Taught us about Building a Business
The Big BEASTS of English Grammar: What we Need to UNLEARN - Graham Burton
"Don't teach AT the students. Teach OFF them" - Scott Thornbury
Learner autonomy is driven by the TEACHER, not the learner - Dr. David Little
Native English isn't Relevant to the Majority of English Users - Jennifer Jenkins
Native Teachers can't Fix Pronunciation - John Levis
Stop Apologizing for Being Multilingual - Dr. Angelica Galante
A PLAN is not a STRATEGY: The 7 Cs of Teacherpreneur Success
We should AIM to give more STATUS to being a teacher - Audrey Rousse-Malpat
Burnout and stress is TOO LATE for teacher wellbeing - Sarah Mercer
ELT is full of DISASTERS - Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Teachers have TWO options: Earn more or leave ELT
ELT has the WRONG input: Learners can't understand REAL people - Sheila Thorn
Grammar is in the BRAIN, not on a piece of paper - Tania Ionin & Silvina Montrul
We CANNOT and DO NOT Control What Students Learn - Bill VanPatten
The traditional pronunciation model EXCLUDES virtually every teacher - Robin Walker & Gemma Archer
TBLT isn't a fad & this is why NOT using it is holding you back - Lara Bryfonski
Donna Brinton on Content-based Instruction
2023 Wrapped: Making Next Year an Authentic One
Cecilia Nobre on Using Video for Teacher Development
Geoff Jordan on ELT Now and How It Could Be
Paul Nation on the Four Strands, 27 years later
Dogme Days of Summer 2
Dogme Days of Summer
Dylan Gates on Dogme and the RDS Method
Nicola Prentis on Investing in your Future Self
Ken Lackman on the Lexical Approach
Teacherpreneur Challenges & Tackling Irrational Fears
Lessons Learned in 2022
Danny Norrington-Davies & Richard Chinn on Emergent Language
Katarina Mentzelopoulos on Exceptionalism in Language Learning
Chris Jacobs on Flow Theory
The Advantages of Disadvantages
CEFR and the Dutch School System
Anthony Gaughan
Florencia Henshaw
Practically Speaking: The CEFR & Plurilingualism
TAP into the Future
The Cult of Learning 18: Fear
Episode 37: Twenty Twenty Won
Episode 36: Ask Us Anything
The Cult of Learning 17: The Art of Noticing Language
Episode 35:Jane Setter
The Cult of Learning 16: S.M.A.R.T. Goals for Effective Language Learning
Episode 34: Chris Jones
Corrective Feedback 8: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Miroslaw Pawlak
The Cult of Learning 15: The Three Essentials of Language Learning, Part III
Corrective Feedback 7: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Shaofeng Li
The Cult of Learning 14: The Three Essentials of Language Learning - Part II
Corrective Feedback 6: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Neomy Storch
The Cult of Learning 13: The Three Essentials of Language Learning - Part 1
Corrective Feedback 5: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo
Corrective Feedback 4: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Yucel Yilmaz
The Cult of Learning 12: What are Habits and The Science Behind Them, Part III
Corrective Feedback 3: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Rebecca Adams
Corrective Feedback 2: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. Hossein Nassaji
Corrective Feedback 1: Exploring the Discourse by Connecting Scholars & Teachers
Cult of Learning 11: What are Habits and The Science Behind Them, Part II
Episode 33: Scott Thornbury
Cult of Learning 10: What are Habits and The Science Behind Them, Part I
Episode 32: Two Years of Teacher Talking Time
Cult of Learning 9: Our Words of the Year for 2020
Episode 31: 2020 Year in Review
The Cult of Learning 8: Mastering the Art of Conversation
Episode 30: Luke Meddings
The Cult of Learning 7: Visualizing Yourself in English
Episode 29: Dr. Masatoshi Sato
The Cult of Learning 6: Why Learn a New Language?
Episode 28: Ana-Marija Petrunic
The Cult of Learning 5: Setting Clear Language Goals, Part III
Episode 27: Chiara Bruzzano & Marc Jones
The Cult of Learning 4: Setting Clear Language Goals, Part II
Episode 26: Jason Anderson
The Cult of Learning 3: Setting Clear Language Goals, Part 1
Episode 25: Jane Willis
The Cult of Learning 2: Three Myths of Learning
Episode 24: Dr. Marije Michel
Episode 23: Fernando Rosell-Aguilar