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Join me for ELTOC—the English Language Teaching Online Conference—from Oxford University Press. I’ll be speaking on Friday, March 27th on the topic of critical thinking and global skills in ELT. It will be live at 9:30 a.m. in the Middle East and 3:30 p.m. in Asia. If those times...

  It is always a pleasure to teach the undergraduate students at Middlebury College here in Vermont. They are a sharp and alert group. Almost all have significant experience learning other languages, so we can usually draw on their backgrounds to explore the basics of TESOL....

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  

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...

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 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...