IATEFL TDSIG Day Profile: Phil Keegan

We’re very pleased to introduce you to our next featured speaker from at the TDSIG Day at IATEFL (Monday, April the 13th incase you haven’t already marked your calendars!). Phil lives in Istanbul and works for Oxford University Press as a Teacher Trainer. He has...

IATEFL TDSIG Day Profile: Conrad Heyns

This week our featured writer is Conrad Heyns, who shares some very elegant thoughts on peer observation, feedback and the complex question of quality assurance. Happy reading! Peer Observations  Conrad Heyns I have been a teacher and a teacher trainer for over 30...

IATEFL TDSIG Day Profile: Karen Waterston

Welcome to our new series of blog posts! This time we’ll be featuring the speakers who will be presenting as part of the TD SIG Day on Day 3 of IATEFL, Monday the 13th of April. Our first featured speaker is Karen Waterston. Karen has been teaching for 25 years...

INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT THORNBURY

SCOTT THORNBURY BY DIVYA MADHAVAN   I’ve just had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Thornbury, whose name was one of the first ones I heard when I became an ELT teacher. How did I first hear of Scott? In a small English bookshop in Vienna. I was struggling with...

Adam Simpson’s Round-Up

This is our final post in this wonderful series of Ten Books that have inspired the teaching practices of various colleagues in the ELT community. Adam Simpson is our author for this elegant round up that echoes the work of all our other contributors as well. Adam...