Author Archives: roycross

1. The first of two that I was prompted to include by a colleague from Japan, Gary Robert, this morning: BBC English’s 6 Minute English https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english Lead story at present? ‘When males are not needed’! Programme archives back to 2008 … Continue reading →

1. Chris Farrell from the Centre of English Studies is offering a month’s free trial of the online learning programme they developed as part of the PRELIM project in exchange for a little feedback. Visit their platform https://cesdirectlearning.podia.com/ and choose … Continue reading →

1. Next Monday, 17th May, at 12:00 UK time, hosted by the University of East Anglia: Social interaction in language teacher education: What a corpus can and can’t tell us by Fiona Farr from the University of Limerick. More info … Continue reading →

1. First out of the traps today, the first episode of the new Climate Connection podcast series https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-connection-episode-1-taking-temperature-0 You can stream it or download it, and there’s notes on each episode and a transcript. Direct link to first episode here … Continue reading →

1. The latest report from Oxford University Press (OUP), Education: The journey towards a digital revolution, draws on insights from OUP staff from 7 countries—the UK, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Spain, and Turkey – as well as from hundreds … Continue reading →

1. Lots of good stuff on the IATEFL events page, where the large majority of events are still free to non-members https://www.iatefl.org/events Coming up this week is a TEA (Testing, Evaluation & Assessment) SIG & ESP (English for Specific Purposes) … Continue reading →

1. NILE’s report on ‘hybrid learning’ – will all learning be hybrid in future, I wonder? https://www.nile-elt.com/product?catalog=Hybrid-Learning-in-Language-Teaching-Organisations If you want to watch the recording of the discussion, which is good, you’ll need to register – but that’s free. PDF below. … Continue reading →

1. Very short notice of tonight’s Edinburgh International Booker Prize event, which can also serve – that’s my excuse, at any rate – as a reminder of the series as a whole: tonight at 19:30 UK time sees translator Megan … Continue reading →

1. Nik Peachey is showing his age, I reckon – Mario Rinvolucri and Paul Davis’s ‘Dictation’ was one of my very favourite books too, back in the day. Good blog post from Nik on dictation here https://peacheypublications.com/3-dictation-activities-for-the-remote-and-physical-classroom 2. All the … Continue reading →

1. NATESOL have very kindly offered four free places at their annual conference on Saturday, 15th May. The programme includes Language change and the learner: from buzzwords to basics and Challenging change: Exploratory Practice, Mentoring and Quality of Life in … Continue reading →