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,...

I’m looking forward to speaking at the 2021 VietTESOL Conference on Meeting the Challenges of Online Instruction. That will be at 11:45pm EDT on Friday, October 22 on the east coast of the U.S. and 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, October 23 in Vietnam.  Registration info here:...

Join me, Deborah Healey, Margi Wald, and Helaine Marshall for a series of talks on Optimizing English Language Instruction, sponsored by TEFL Kuwait. This will be on Saturday, June 26th. Double check the time in your part of the world. It will run from 10am to 2 pm on the east...

Join me on April 24 for the spring version of Oxford Day Online. I’ll be talking about Encouraging Student-Centered Learning in Academic English. See the description below. Do check your local time zone. This is mostly aimed at an Asian audience so the sessions are in the...

Join me on Friday, April 16th for a talk as part of the Virtual Round Table. Here’s the topic: An effective way to engage our students more deeply with the content of language-learning classes is through the use of photographs and images. In this interactive webinar we will...

Join me on Tuesday morning April 13  at 11:00 a.m. EDT for a conversation about life in Vermont! This is part of a series about the United States from the U.S. Department of State. It is intended for English language learners and teachers, so we’ll be speaking in accessible...