16 episodes
Fill in the Gaps Delta
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- Education
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In each podcast, the group discuss their experiences and thoughts related to their chosen discussion area, offering useful insights and suggestions to listeners that could help them in their work as teachers.
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About Us Part 2
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia, and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In this episode we continue to answer questions about our journey in teaching ESL...
What do you currently find most challenging in your job?
What do you do after a tricky class?
Which methodologies or ESL personalities interest you the most?
What does the future hold for teachers?
Are there any other questions you'd like us to answer? Contact us at fillinthegaps2021@outlook.com
Some useful links...
Scott Thornbury poses numerous questions in his blog - questions which are answered in detail by his followers. A great way of building knowledge about key topics in language education
https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/
David Crystal briefly talks about varieties of English in this short clip. Check out more of his videos to learn more about the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_q9b9YqGRY
What's Task Based Learning? Check out the Jane and Dave Willis website for information and lesson plans to help guide you through this topic:
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About Us
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia, and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In this episode we are answering some questions about us for example how we started teaching, what motivates us and what advice we would give new teachers.
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Error Correction and Feedback
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia, and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In this episode, we discuss what error correction and feedback are and when, how, how often we should provide feedback for it to be effective for students' language learning. If you want to learn more about the topic, check out the following information about the video we watched and parts from some books that we read on the topic.
For the video:
ISTEK ELT 2013 Concurrent Keynote - Jeremy Harmer "Does Correction Work? It Depends Who You Ask!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlGc1ZDnxgA&list=PLAqtJXU_DTu5HjGrKzmjy71ArHJF4Fbmg
The books mentioned:
The practice of English Language Teaching by Harmer (Longman 1983)- Chapter 7
Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener (MacMillan, 1994)- Chapter 12 -
Homework in ELT
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia, and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In each podcast, the group discusses their experiences and thoughts related to their chosen discussion area, offering useful insights and suggestions to listeners that could help them in their work as teachers.
Episode 13 focuses on the role of homework in the modern classroom. We discussed ideas, problems and solutions for making homework more pleasant, engaging and less time-consuming.
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Emotions in the ESL classroom
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia, and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In each podcast, the group discusses their experiences and thoughts related to their chosen discussion area, offering useful insights and suggestions to listeners that could help them in their work as teachers.
Episode 12 focuses on the impact of emotions for both teachers and learners in the classroom.
For more information on this interesting topic, check out the following article:
“Exploring emotions in language teaching” by Jack C. Richards (2020), RELC Journal, 1 –15
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Collaborative Learning
Hello and welcome to Fill in the Gaps.
Join Alan, Fatma, Julia and Semra as they navigate their way through various topics associated with teaching English as a foreign language.
In each podcast, the group discuss their experiences and thoughts related to their chosen discussion area, offering useful insights and suggestions to listeners that could help them in their work as teachers.
Episode 11 focuses on collaborative learning in the ESL classroom.
The article we discussed in this episode was:
Active Learning Through Poster Presentations
Brian Cullen (Nagoya Institute of Technology) & Ben Backwell (Nagoya City University)
Contact us at fillinthegaps2021@outlook.com