Teacher Talking Time: The Learn YOUR English Podca 2li3s

Click here to our free teacherpreneur community to grow together.  Andrew, Mike, and Leo sit down and ponder Dogme....as a new approach? It certainly has experienced a resurgence since the pandemic and we are curious why that is.  We also dive into: the role of the teacher the shift away from planning & towards reacting what authentic communication actually means how teachers can model lifelong learning habits using Dogme in your business and using the less is more philosophy As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Map your first course in 60 minutes or less - your free guide here 3. See our free guides for teachers starting their own business  4. Try our TAP program free for 7 days 5. D: Teaching Listening Made Easy

Click here to our free teacherpreneur community to grow together.  Dylan was born just outside London and has been working in the ELT sector for nearly 25 years. About 12 years ago, he discovered Dogme, or as he prefers to call it “Teaching Unplugged”, and this led to his interest in deep-end learning approaches like TBLT and language coaching. When he trains teachers, he makes sure they learn how to move away from the coursebook and deal with emergent language. In this episode, he shines a light on: how freelancing led him to Dogme why he includes reactive teaching in his tool kit for the modern teacher the RDS method for dealing with emergent language key considerations for deg materials with a reactive mindset the future of ELT, AI, and how teachers can innovate More on Dylan: 1. Follow him on LinkedIn 2. Check out his website As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to chat about your business

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free community.  And click here to check out The Chilled Investor to make your money work for you.  Nicola has been in ELT for over 20 years as a teacher, materials writer, and entrepreneur. She's written many coursebooks and over 200 pages of the British Council learning English website. More recently, she helps language teachers take control of their finances.  Her interest in investing came about almost by accident when she began looking at her own woeful finances and she now supplements her income through investing and runs a course for beginner investors at The Chilled Investor.  In this episode, Nicola dives into: how her childhood impacts her relationship with money why many teachers sweep finances under the rug what investing is and what it isn't demystifying limiting beliefs about investing why it's never too late how "desperation is the mother of research, self study, and self improvement" why precarity in our industry is more reason to invest in yourself, not less More on Nicola: 1. Follow her on LinkedIn 2. Check out her Chilled Investor program As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to chat about your business

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free community.  Ken has been in ELT since 1995. A teacher, trainer, and author, he has written or co-written over 20 books, including the recently published Connections 3 coursebook with Pearson. In this episode, he dives into the lexical approach, why it never caught on and how teachers can use it in their teaching. Specifically, we dive into:  how ELT has evolved  why Michael Lewis was "pissed" Dogme ELT & its place how teachers can decide which vocabulary to focus on in Dogme /TBLT  his CAT framework for Dogme the post/no methodology era  students making "great mistakes"  the Lexical Approach  the future of ELT and AI More on Ken: 1. Connect with him on Facebook 2. his resources on his website As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to chat about your business

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free community.  Leo, Mike and Andrew return to the studio to discuss the most common challenges teacherpreneurs face. They get into the three hats that a teacherpreneur needs and how to build up each one. Specifically, they talk about: balancing the teacher, creator, and entrepreneur in you  teaching being the only profession where we feel guilty about earning more money why a lack of goal clarity means you won't move forward  perfectionism as an irrational fear  niching and eliminating competition  creating equity in your business  a system to charge more As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Get your own clients on social media right now 3. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 4. See our free guides for teachers  5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goal

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free community.  Leo, Mike, and Andrew hop in the studio to record their annual year-end audit. Here, they reflect on the lessons they learned in 2022. They run through specific lessons that drive success, failure, and resilience. Specific lessons they touch on are: 1. It always takes longer than it's going to take 2. Behind mountains are more mountains 3. Knowing what success looks like 4. Starting small 5. Getting over the case of the "What ifs"  For the Indigenous Teachings book "Legends and Teachings of Xeel's The Creator" Mike mentioned in this episode, click here.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Get your own clients on social media right now 3. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 4. See our free guides for teachers  5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 

Grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free community.  Danny Norrington Davies and Richard Chinn have done extensive research on emergent language and have co-authored "Working with emergent language." Danny has over 25 years in the industry and is currently a CELTA and DELTA tutor. His first book "Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons" was a best-seller. Richard has trained teachers all over the world and currently does pre-service and in-service training courses at IH London. He is also an associate professor at King's College London.  In this episode, Danny & Richard discuss: the rise of emergent language why many were resistant to the idea the imbalance between research on error correction versus emergent language use  incidents that prevent language from emerging  the connections between emergent language and task-based learning how teachers can develop their "emergent language muscle" why the student's agenda supersedes the teacher's  how teachers can utilize emergent language even with beginners why they decided to write a book on emergent language More on Richard & Danny: Connect with Richard on LinkedIn Connect with Danny on LinkedIn Grab your copy of their book "Working with emergent language". As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Sandbox your own course ideas in our free community for teacherpreneurs.  2. Get your own clients on social media right now 3. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 4. See our free guides for teachers  5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 

Going solo as a teacher? Start here.  Katarina Mentzelopoulos is an ESRC-funded Ph.D. student at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include language learning motivation, exceptional language learning, multilingualism and learner identity. She recently co-authored two books with the late Zoltán Dörnyei: Stories from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency (50% discount code STORIES50 until 30/11) Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency (50% discount code LESSONS50 until 31/10) The books tell the stories of people who achieved native-like proficiency against all odds. In this episode, Katarina discusses: what exceptionalism in language learning means the critical period hypothesis polyglots vs mastering a language how they selected participants for the books & their stories why native-like isn’t necessarily the standard and what is instead markedness versus proficiency why forming a bond with the language is integral working with Zoltán Dörnyei and his legacy Read more about this episode on the LYE blog.  More on Katarina Mentzelopoulos: Follow her on Twitter Book 1: Stories Book 2: Lessons As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Get your own clients on social media right now 2. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel 3. See our free guides for teachers  4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals 

Going solo as a teacher? Start here.  Chris Jacobs s Mike and Andrew to talk about flow theory. Chris is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, teaching French, Italian, Spanish, and Linguistics. He is currently working on projects exploring learning optimization through flow - flow is a state of deep focus on an enjoyable activity that is at once challenging and accessible. Research on flow and language acquisition is increasing, and Chris is at the forefront of that.  In this episode, Chris dives into: what flow is and its balance between fun and relevance how the theory of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been adapted to language learning characteristics of flow experiences how tasks and TBLT are innate elements of flow activities that are more conducive to creating flow why flow and tasks are possible with all proficiency levels More on Chris Jacobs: His University of Nebraska Page His most recent publication on flow Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. See our free guides for teachers  2. TBLT Made Easy - tasks to your inbox! 3. Grow your business with us 4. Get a free tip in your inbox every week to grow your teaching business 5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals  6. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish  7. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel  

Want to use modern approaches to grow your own teaching business? Book a chat with us to see if we can help.  Leo, Mike, and Andrew talk about burnout in education, Learn YOUR English beginnings, their journey, and how teachers can overcome obstacles. Drawing parallels from stories presented in Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath - the beginning of French impressionism, why going to Harvard isn't necessarily an advantage, Ikea's controversial founding and more - they tackle how successful teaching businesses emerge from seeing advantages in disadvantages.  Specifically, they discuss: creating non-obvious solutions to obvious problems how to follow the path of most resistance why French impressionists decided to be big fish in a small pond Ikea as an example of the five-factor psychological model of successful enterprises delaying gratification as one of the most important tools for a teacherpreneur  how to exercise the idea muscle why becoming the person you want to be means challenging the person you currently are  Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. See our free guides for teachers  2. TBLT Made Easy - tasks to your inbox! 3. Grow your business with us 4. Receive a free teaching and business tip every week in your inbox 5. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals  6. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish 

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  This is a very special episode of Teacher Talking Time, in partnership with the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. This episode was created as part of the final assessment of MA course "The CEFR in Context: Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research" by Prof. Dr. Marije Michel and Dr. Audrey Rousse-Malpat. We at Learn YOUR English are thrilled to be a part of it coming to life.  Episode Description: The CEFR is a useful tool for assessment and can be used to better align assessment across Europe. But is this what is actually happening? In this podcast episode, assessment and the CEFR in the Dutch school system will be discussed from the perspectives of experts in the field of research, secondary school teachers of English, and students studying to become teachers of English.  Interviewers: Lize Hofman. Gerbrich Dijkstra, and Mark van der Wijk are currently doing the Educational Master track for English at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Guests on this episode: Prof. Dr. Rick de Graaff works at the University Utrecht and teaches Foreign Language Didactics and Bilingual Education. His field of expertise is effective foreign language education, second language didactics, early foreign language education, and the professional development of language teachers. He has previously researched how the CEFR can effectively be implemented in second language education. Drs. Alessandra Corda is the head of modern language undergraduate teacher training departments at the Hogeschool Amsterdam (University of Applied Sciences) and has worked in the language education field for the past 25 years. She has also researched how to effectively implement the CEFR in second language education and is very knowledgeable about the assessment of language learning in education. Niels Amperse teaches English at a secondary school in the Netherlands. He is still in the early stages of his teaching career and followed CEFR classes during his training to become a teacher. He is interested in the development of secondary school students and has a refreshing view of second language learning in the Dutch educational system. Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  Ways we at LYE can help you right now: 1. Free Business Foundations Training 2. Free Dogme ELT Training 3. Get a free teaching and business tip every week 4. Book a complimentary consultation with us to look at your goals  5. Follow us on IG: @learnyourenglish 

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  Anthony Gaughan is a teacher and teacher-trainer with over 25 years of experience working in the corporate, state secondary, higher education, and private adult education sectors. He is a Cambridge English approved Assessor and Main Course Tutor for the CELTA initial teacher training qualification, as well as a Tutor for the DELTA Module 2 and the Trinity Diploma. Together with his then-colleague, Izzy Orde, Anthony first applied Dogme ELT principles to running CELTA courses in 2009, and has been advocating for simplifying initial teacher education ever since. See his blog "Teacher Training Unplugged." In this episode, Anthony dives into: how a Japanese balloon pushed him towards Dogme teaching versus teaching-like behaviours transforming CELTA training into unprescribed, dogmatic experiences why he was called irresponsible and dangerous at IATEFL training as a suspension of disbelief debunking myths about beginner students, beginner teachers, and new beginnings Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More on Anthony Gaughan: Follow on LinkedIn His Blog Hamburg School of English Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Our Weekly Newsletter our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to grow your teaching business in 5 days? Take our free 120-hour training here Want to talk about how to grow your business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  Florencia Henshaw has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is now the Director of Advanced Spanish. She is an award-winning educator who has published and presented nationally and internationally on technology integration and research-based pedagogical practices. Dr. Henshaw is also the host of “Unpacking Language Pedagogy” (available as a podcast and YouTube channel), where she summarizes and discusses research articles, activities, , and various topics related to language teaching. Her co-authored book, "Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory goes to the Classroom," aims to help educators visualize how to put principles into action. In this episode, Florencia discusses: if people are born teachers classrooms as artificial environments why empathy is required for teachers to relinquish control in the learning process how we should prioritize learner perceptions and attitudes  the backwardness of how most assessments are set up strategies to scaffold and increase the presence of target language how her new book helps teachers incorporate new SLA research into the classroom Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More from Dr. Henshaw: Her YouTube channel "Unpacking Language Pedagogy" Her website "Technology for Language Teaching and Learning" Her book "Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom" Follow her on Twitter: @Prof_F_Henshaw Follow her on LinkedIn Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Take our free 120-hour training on how to overcome common obstacles in your business Our Weekly Newsletter our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to use Dogme and TBLT to grow your sustainable teaching business? Schedule a chat with us to see if we can help.  This is a very special episode of Teacher Talking Time, in partnership with the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. This episode was created as part of an MA course "The CEFR in Context: Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research" by Prof. Dr. Marije Michel and Dr. Audrey Rousse-Malpat. We at Learn YOUR English are thrilled to be a part of it coming to life.  Episode Description: This episode of Moments Mediating Matters explores the influence of plurilingualism on the Dutch educational system, examines how the concept of mediation is presented in the Companion Volume, and further discusses how mediation can accompany not only teachers but also learners in their learning process. To do so, three guests with different levels of expertise were invited to converse on the influence of the CEFR, and more specifically, the concept of mediation in an increasingly plurilingual society. Episode created with thanks to Tessa Jutstra. Interviewers: Amarins de Jager, Michelle Leegsma, and Laura Polman are currently doing the Educational Master track for English at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Guests on this episode: Prof. Piet van Avermaet is the head of the Centre for Diversity and Learning at the Linguistics department of Ghent University. His field of expertise is multilingualism and more specifically, how multilingualism can be applied in the classroom and how it can be a cause of social inequality in of inclusion and language assessment.  Dr. Brian North is one of the co-authors of the CEFR and the Companion Volume. He is an expert in the field of foreign language learning, applied linguistics and intercultural communication, and coordinated the 1991 Symposium that recommended the CEFR. North has been involved with the work of the Council of Europe for a long time and developed the levels and descriptors of the CEFR.  Prof. Enrica Piccardo is also co-author of the Companion Volume of the CEFR. She is a professor at the University of Toronto in the Languages and Literacies Education Program and Head of the Centre for Education Research in Languages and Literacies. Her work focuses on the acquisition and teaching of foreign languages, the structuring of curricula, and the role of multi/plurilingualism in education and she has been cooperating with the Council of Europe on the project of developing the Companion Volume Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Want to Grow your Teaching Business? Book a Call with us Our Weekly Newsletter our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how.  How much lesson planning is required? Should I use a coursebook? Are teaching 1-1 or groups are the only options? How do I set up my business to be scalable? Mike, Leo, and Andrew kick off 2022 by examining the most common questions teachers going freelance ask.  They also examine teacher profiles who have ed LYE's new Teacher Accelerator Program and what they have in common. If you're a teacher looking to escape precarity and venture into starting or scaling your own tutoring service, this episode is for you.  Welcome to 2022! Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Teacher Accelerator Program Our Mailing List our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Want to teach less and earn more? Find out how.  How much lesson planning is required? Should I use a coursebook? Are teaching 1-1 or groups are the only options? How do I set up my business to be scalable? Mike, Leo, and Andrew kick off 2022 by examining the most common questions teachers going freelance ask.  They also examine teacher profiles who have ed LYE's new Teacher Accelerator Program and what they have in common. If you're a teacher looking to escape precarity, reduce lesson planning, and achieve better work-life balance, this episode is for you.  Welcome to 2022! Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Teacher Accelerator Program Our Mailing List our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are ionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike dive into fear. What is it? Why do we have it? What are the consequences of fear? Its benefits? And, of course, how do these apply to learning a language? As we start a new year, fear - embracing it, conquering it, coping with it - is once again on the to do list. Mike and Leo discuss three strategies for dealing with the fear holding back our potential. For this episode, we ask you: how do you handle fear in your life? If you are a learning a language, these Cult of Learning episodes are for you! Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Teach less and earn more in your teaching Our Blog post for this episode Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal Our Self-study Master Package   Our Website our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Mike, Andrew, and Leo sip some nog and reminisce on the year that was. From COVID to a corrective series to interviews with amazing scholars, it was a great year for the Teacher Talking Time Podcast. Here, the guys touch on the year's most listened to episodes, words of the year, how language has changed during the pandemic, which is ebb and which is flow, and predict what 2022 might have in store - including some work-life balance goals. Thanks for listening this year and stay tuned for many exciting things we have in store for 2022. Happy holidays from us at Learn YOUR English! Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Mailing List Our Teacher Accelerator Program our Self-directed Learning Portal Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

Mike, Leo, and Andrew get back in the studio for a special, bizarro episode. In this "Ask Us Anything" show, the guys prepared secret questions for the others. The only rule? They can't be about teaching or education.  Of course, they're not great at following rules.  Touching on Nickelback, self doubt, being vulnerable, accepting or rejecting dinner invitations, Stephen King, pending life goals, long distance relationships - and much more - they invite you on a different type of journey. For a non-education episode, this is very educational.  If you want to give your answer to the questions asked here, make a post in our teacher discussion forum.  To ask us your "ask me anything" question, shoot us a DM on Instagram: @learnyourenglish   Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. Podcast Creation: This episode was created with from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective D tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Mailing List Our Teacher Development hip our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online D Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time

CULT/K^LT/A fashionable belief, idea, or attitude that influences people’s lives/The cult of learning encourages people to find and pursue what they are ionate about/ *”The Cult of Learning” are episodes for learners of languages. These episodes will discuss tools and strategies for learning and provide opportunities for effective listening practice. These episodes are also part of our Self-directed Learning Portal, which helps thousands of people around the world improve the English skills important to them. Leo and Mike look at an important "technique" that is crucial for those who want to learn a language: noticing.  What is noticing? How does it affect language learning? How do we notice language? Why is noticing important? More specifically, they go in-depth on how it works: 1. What noticing language means 2. Why noticing the gap between what you hear or read and what you can say is essential 3. How you should practice applying what you notice in your use of language If you are a learning a language, these Cult of Learning episodes are for you! Thank you for listening! If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Our Blog post for this episode Our FREE E-book on Learning. We hope it helps you learn outside the classroom! Improve your English with our Self-directed Learning Portal - only $50/year Our Self-study Master Package   Our Website our Mailing List Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time