Vocabulary is the theme for our latest podcast for language professionals. The working name is “croissants and cauliflowers”. Listen to find out why.
Episode 15
After our series of episodes on language assessment, we have returned to a teaching subject., the often neglected topic of pronunciation
Episode 13
In the latest episode of the professional development podcast for language professionals, Neil and I looked at some of the things you need to think about after you have written your test items.
Episode 12
The team are talking about three fundamental questions you need to answer before even starting to develop a language assessment: Why are you assessing? What are you assessing? Who are you assessing?
In this episode we have an expert guest speaker from the British Council.
Language assessment
Language assessment literacy is an area of language teaching that is easily overlooked. While most language teachers are involved in assessment, how much training have they had?
Onwards and upwards
I am starting a PhD next year. I am sure it will be challenging but I am both worried and excited by it.
MELTA conference
I (Kevin) am honoured and excited to be giving a presentation at the MELTA conference next month entitled “Take control and form your own future: a structured approach to professional development”. Here is the web site: http://elt-moscow.ru/2020/10/5th-melta-international-online-conference-12-12-2020/
Episode 11
In this episode of Delivering Development, the podcast for language teachers and administrators, Kevin and Laura are talking about a few of the issues involved with running language assessment online.
Language assessment
In high-stakes situations, great language teaching is pointless without great language assessment. Delivering Development will be looking at language assessment in the next episodes.
Episode 10
In this edition of the podcast for language teachers and other professionals in the field, we looked at some observations of online teaching post-summer and the return to face-to-face.