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 […]