I’m looking forward to seeing friends old and new at the TESOL conference in Long Beach, CA, March 18-21. Hope to see you there!

I had a terrific time in January teaching my intensive Intro to TESOL course to undergraduates at Middlebury College. Students at Middlebury take four courses in the fall and spring semesters, but then one course intensively in January. I had a terrific group of students this...

I’m looking forward to seeing friends old and new at the TEFL Kuwait Conference on February 15, 2025 at the Kuwait College of Science & Technology. I’ll be giving a keynote address on Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions in 21st Century Language Teaching. Hope...

The team at American English has posted the video from my live webinar on Improving Classroom Assessment for English Language Teachers. You can find it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/F8p1qWPuk0k?t=178  

It’s that time once again! I’m looking forward to seeing friends old and new at the TESOL Convention in Tampa. I’ll be giving a brief talk as part of the CEA Accreditation Workshop preceding the conference on Wednesday. After that I’ll be around for the rest of the week. Will you...

From time to time in my Intro to TESOL Course at Middlebury College, I invite students to go out over the weekend and collect contemporary slang terms that might be challenging for second language learners and newly arrived international students. When I’m lucky, a few students...

In January I had the pleasure of once again teaching an Intro to TESOL course at Middlebury College. It is always amazing to work with these bright, young students and to remind myself again of what it was like back when I didn’t know anything at all about language teaching.  On...

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve attended a face-to-face TESOL Convention. Really looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones at the conference in Portland. Let me know if you might be there and we’ll try to connect!

At the beginning of March I had the chance to work with some students at Middlebury College who are volunteering their time to help some of the migrant farm workers here in Vermont with their English. Students sign up to help out and are then paired with their...

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Oxford University Press, I’ll be giving at talk at the 41st annual Thai TESOL Conference in late January. This will be a similar talk to the one I gave at the Vietnam TESOL conference in the fall. I’m afraid this one is virtual,...