Teachers’ summer programmes with Adrian Underhill, 2022

Hello everyone, Now that nothing is getting back to normal, I’d like to draw your attention to some unusually interesting and (I think) innovative summer teacher training programmes. There is full information at the links. If you decide to come, let’s make sure we...

Pronunciation: Three practices to question, three practices to explore

(Posted today on the OXFORD TEFL blog) See what’s going on, try something different, learn from it. That’s my teacher development mantra. You can use it anywhere and it applies to everything. Let’s start with the first bit: See what’s going on…. To follow...

Our algorithms for teaching grammar do not apply to teaching pronunciation

Teachers on the online Trinity Diploma at Oxford TEFL were discussing the problems of explaining pronunciation. This follows the previous post “Inside versus outside knowledge of pronunciation” Teacher Miriam posed this question: How do I describe the differences...