ELT Podcast - The Teachers' Lounge
Hosted by Bill Pellowe
Language teachers talking about education and language teaching.
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- First Lesson of the School Year for EFL Classrooms
Language teachers talk about what they do when faced with a new group of students in the classroom on the first day of classes in the new school year.
[7.96 MB, 16:33, April 9th, 2008]
- Streaming Students by Ability Level
EFL teachers discuss streaming, or tracking, which involves dividing the students up into different ability levels.
[17.42 MB, 36:10, November 23rd, 2007]
- Reports on the JALT CALL conference
We talk about various technology-related presentations that we attended at a conference held in Tokyo June 2-3, 2007.
[27.6 MB, 28:42, June 24th, 2007]
- Attending Conferences for Language Teachers
Attending conferences is good for teachers for so many reasons. In this episode, we talk about attending conferences, and we offer some advice for first-timers.
[13.97 MB, 28:59, May 16th, 2007]
- Seating Arrangements in Language Classrooms
Sometimes students are clustered at the back of the room. We discuss why this is problematic and we offer solutions that have worked for us in our own language classrooms.
[8.4 MB, 17:30, April 22nd, 2007]
- Attendance and Tardiness in EFL Classrooms
EFL teachers discuss attendance policies and how to discourage students from being late.
[7.97 MB, 16:29, April 15th, 2007]
- Information Gap Activities in EFL Lessons
Practical talk from classroom teachers about info gap activities
[12.94 MB, 26:49, February 20th, 2007]
- Using Textbook Dialogs in EFL Classrooms
English teachers talk about using textbook dialogs when teaching English as a foreign language.
[11.7 MB, 24:12, February 12th, 2007]
- Student Expectations in EFL Classrooms
Language teachers talk about student expectations.
[8.92 MB, 18:34, February 4th, 2007]
- Student Evaluations in EFL Courses
Language teachers talk about evaluating students, from continuous assessment to final examinations.
[12.23 MB, 25:29, January 23rd, 2007]
Language teachers talk about vacation time.
[13.3 MB, 27:41, December 28th, 2006]
- Attendance in EFL Classrooms
A 16-year-old girl in Wyoming won a car for good attendance. We talk about attendance policies, motivation and enforcement.
[8.36 MB, 17:24, December 17th, 2006]
- Accents and Language Teaching
Regional accents and English language teaching.
[10.67 MB, 22:12, December 10th, 2006]
- Michael Richards; Educational Reform
Educational reform in Japan. Michael Richards and dealing with disruption in the classroom.
[16.63 MB, 34:37, December 3rd, 2006]