"After several decades of creating and publishing pronunciation materials, I’ve hopefully learnt a few tricks of the trade! In this session, I’ll talk you through some of the thought processes involved in designing activities, from diagnosing a problem through to finding an appropriate solution, while avoiding some of the traps along the way. After this […]

Achieving a specified wordcount is a vital skill in various educational and business contexts. Yet many students, teachers and professionals find it challenging to write word-limited texts like abstracts and personal statements. This workshop covers seven techniques to reduce wordcount in three different aspects – grammatical, lexical, and critical. Our resulting texts illustrate how using […]

An exclusive event for members of all ELTA associations across Germany! To learn more and register, click here.

This week, we are going to talk abut open educational resources (OER) and what they mean for us a teachers and materials developers. All of us have used freely available teaching resources at one time or another. But how do we know what we're allowed to use? And do we know how we're allowed to […]

In this interactive workshop, we’ll look at different ways that we can assess our learners’ communication skills and how we can provide more support to all our learners in the classroom. We’ll analyse different approaches to assessing written work and share some ideas for easy-to-use tech to assess speaking. Click here to register

Are you teaching in higher education in Germany? If you are, your courses have most likely been moved online for the 3rd semester in this pandemic. You’ve probably been told that you can’t run your language exams on campus this semester. Are you wondering how you’re going to assess your students? Are you looking for […]

Writing good comprehension activities is hard, but Sue is ready to help us take on the challenge in this online workshop. She’ll take us through different stages of writing a skills lesson, including lead-in activities, comprehension and language focus; present some rules and guidelines that can help; and also go into some detail on how […]

In this highly interactive workshop, I would like to share insights into the world of leadership development (the challenges leaders face and the training and coaching solutions I typically provide). We'll explore the opportunities and challenges for ELT professionals to increase further the scope of their activity beyond language. More details here, and to register, […]

In our first session, we look at what a lexical way of looking at language involves - and how it differs from a more traditional grammar + words approach. We’ll explore why a grammar plus words approach can be hard to sustain, and consider some of the problems it presents in terms of classroom content. […]

Global school closures mean that even teachers who have avoided online teaching are being forced to deliver lessons and/or content to their students digitally. In the absence of face-to-face contact, good assessment is more important than ever in providing feedback to students and keeping them engaged and motivated. In this session, we’ll talk about some […]