My slides for this talk can be downloaded here. EAP students are often unable to recognise the author’s voice in an academic text. Reading academic journal articles, where almost every […]

My slides for this talk can be downloaded here. Since its introduction in 1956 and revision in 2001, Bloom’s Taxonomy has had a great influence on teaching and assessment. However, […]

The slides accompanying my BALEAP 2023 talk can be downloaded here. It is often argued that an educational programme, such as a university foundation year, should not focus solely on […]

My IATEFL 2022 presentation is scheduled for Thursday 19 May 2022, 12.45-13.15, at Hilton Lagan Room A. This talk reviews various forms of written corrective feedback (instruction offered in response […]

My IATEFL 2021 presentation is scheduled for Monday 21 June at 11 am (UK time). In this talk I review what is currently known about how human memory operates and […]

This talk is a response to Silvana Richardson’s plenary presentation at IATEFL 2016 in Birmingham. Big thanks to everyone who came along! The summary of my talk has been published […]

In this talk, delivered at the IATEFL 2017 conference in Glasgow, I looked at various activities that take place in class, bearing in mind which of these activities could be […]

This talk, delivered at IATEFL 2016 Birmingham, is addressed to those of my fellow teachers of English who are anxious to divert from their lesson plans and perceive their teaching […]

The principal idea that I aimed to promote in my talk at the IATEFL 2015 conference is that language training needs to be closely integrated with working on the learner’s […]

While Lexical Approach (Lewis 1993) and the meme Demand High are slowly but surely changing the mindsets of teachers with regard to what learning a language involves and how languages should […]