Masters of TESOL

23 – Should we DE-ACCENT our students? – Sam Hellmuth

THIS IS THE LAST PODCAST (for the foreseeable future). I’m hardly prolific with podcast releases but this will be the last one for the foreseeable future. I’ve decided to

22 – Online Learning Past and Future – Stafford Lumsden

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/22_-_Stafford_Lumsden_-_Online_Learning.mp3 {bleep bloop bleep} I booted up cyborg teacher Stafford Lumsden to talk about online

21.5 – Thinking Skills – VIDEO!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/21.5_Thinking_Skills_-_VIDEO.mp3 I am branching out into video. First Video Channel Please watch, subscribe, like and all those t

21 – Can Dictation Be Fun? – Oksana Kharley

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/21_-_Can_Dictation_Be_Fun__-_Oksana_Kharley.mp3 “Oh googie…dictation….” Possibly one of the most misused input/output techniques.

20 – using TED talks (and other videos) in ESL EFL class – Roger Fusselman

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/20_-_Roger_Fussellman_-_TED_Talks_in_ESL_ELF_class.mp3 I caught up with Roger Fusselman after his KOTESOL conference presentation

19 – Reflective Practice – Thomas Farrell

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/19_-_Reflective_Practice_-_Thomas_Farrell.mp3 The self-styled ‘bad boy’ of language teaching, Thomas Farrell, dropped by my offic

18 – Discourse Markers – Jon Campbell-Larsen

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/18_-_Discourse_Markers_-_Jon_Campbell-Larsen.mp3 Well, discourse markers are kinda a feature of, like, natural speech in, you kno

17 – Reichmuth and Hanf – How to use TV shows for pronunciation – QUICKIE

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/17_-_Reichmuth_and_Hanf_-_TV_shows_for_pronunciation_-_QUICKIE.mp3 How effective is using English language TV in helping students

16 – Eytan Zweig – what words really mean – semantics and pragmatics

Plurals are easy, right? There’s one or there’s more than one… pretty straight forward. “All”, “every”, “All the” “each” – that’s pretty simple too, isn’t it? Well, hold

15 – The Student Becomes The Teacher – Justin McKibben

In the first of this batch of hit-n-run quickie interviews from the KOTESOL conference in Seoul at the end of 2016, I spoke to Justin McKibben about how we can expand stu

14 – MOT Listeners’ Tales from the classroom

In this end-of-year episode, we get the funnier side of teaching English with stories from listeners and future interviewees. Special thanks to Grace, Thomas, Matthew, Jo

Your Funny EFL / ESL Teaching Stories – an open call

I’m making a Christmas episode of the podcast and I need your help. Yes, YOU. The person reading this right now. Don’t look around, I’m talking to you~! http://traffic.li

13 – What the way you speak says about you – Sociolinguistics with Andrew Euan MacFarlane

  This episode, we start with a little experiment and get more interactive. Let us know what country you thought the music originated in at @MOTcast with the hashtag #mot

12 – Babies and First Language Acquisition – Tamar Keren-Portnoy pt1

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/12_-_First_Language_Acquisition_-_Tamar_Keren-Portnoy_pt1.mp3 @MOTcast Now on Instagram! Once again, I got lost in the labyrinthi

11 – Too old to learn? The Critical Period – Heather Marsden

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/11_-_Too_old_to_learn__The_Critical_Period_-_Heather_Marsden.mp3 This episode, I speak to University of York’s Heather Marsden ab

10 – how fair is your English test? – QUICKIE

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/10_-_Is_your_English_test_fair_.mp3 @MOTcast www.mastersoftesol.com Subscribe on iTunes I’m alive! Back after five months with a

09 – Bilingual Mythbusting – Marilyn Vihman

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/09_-_Bilingual_Mythbusting_-_Marilyn_Vihman.mp3 Subscribe on iTunes Follow me on Twitter – @MOTcast To a monolingual, being bilin

08 – English as a Lingua Franca in the ESL classroom – Martin Dewey

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/08__English_as_a_Lingua_Franca_in_the_ESL_classroom__Martin_Dewey.mp3 [This episode follows up on issues first covered in episode

07 – Why your ESL lesson bombed – Tom Randolph

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/07_-_Why_your_ESL_lesson_bombed_-_Tom_Randolph.mp3 In this episode we hear from TESOL methodology trainer Tom Randolph about some

06 – The ESL / EFL student brain and how we learn – Stephen van Vlack

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mastersoftesol/06_-_How_ESL___EFL_students_learn_-_Stephen_van_Vlack.mp3 As teachers, we need to be aware of how students are learning. Differen