English Out There - Exploding the Myth of ELT

Sep 30 2024 141 ep. 21 mins 42
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English Out There explodes the myth of English language teaching (ELT) that the global education industry would rather you didn't know about. English Out There is a hugely effective way to learn to speak English. Listen to me, Jason West, and top EOT teacher Caroline Swinton based in Italy (see her on Facebook) talk about how EOT works and why it is so effective. 

Listen to EOT teachers working with learners like you from around the world...can you recognise and hear that it is a completely different kind of process compared to the usual type of English lessons that most of the world is sold and has been for decades? Listen to me talking with other educators about English language learning in the 21st century. EOT involves using some unique learning content before having focused and effective learning conversations .
 
EOT gets you using new language with fluent and native speakers...and it works and is a lot of fun!

WARNING: Occasional contextually appropriate profanity :-)

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Episode 11: Exploding The Myth of ELT Episode 11 - Delusional, Scared and Self Important People in ELT and Education in General

Sep 30 2024 42 mins  
That's rather a challening title isn't it? Well, Judy, Caroline and myself all really don't like to call ourselves "teachers" because, as you will hear if you listen, we feel the word doesn't describe what we do and is sort of obsolete in today's world. Are you wedded to the notion that "teaching" is (still) the right word to slap onto the role of someone who supposedly helps other

Episode 10: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 10 - Caprice on EOT Summer School - Context - Personalisation

Sep 20 2024 39 mins  
This week Caroline and I talk with our special guest Caprice Jackson, the director of the English Out There summer school. Caprice has been running it every year since 2009 and has a wealth of knowledge about languages, language learning, teaching English (in a London further education college) and the summer school style of English Out There...carried out without classrooms and on

Episode 9: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 9 - Learning Outcomes pt 2 + Innovation & Marketing in ELT

Sep 07 2024 38 mins  
This week Caroline wanted to say a bit more on formal learning outcomes in mainstream education leading into ELT and how we both find it perpetually surprising that the billions of English learners are, in our view, being not only let down but, worse, blamed for their failure to speak by the ELT status quo. It is changing and new ways of working have developed but no hugely profita

Episode 8: Exploding The Myth of ELT Episode 8 - Judy Thompson re Context, Educational Systemic Outcomes and Autism

Aug 31 2024 38 mins  
We've got Judy back! Yay! This one is fairly broad ranging. At the start Judy responds to Caroline and Jason's discussion in episode 7 about context in learning English and other topics then the three discuss teaching and global systemic educational outcomes and how learners are actually constrained by the prevailing orthodoxy in the opinion of the participants which segways into a

Episode 7: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 7 - Educational Indoctrination & Learning Context

Aug 23 2024 36 mins  
So, after a week away due to some 'field activities' by Jason, Caroline and Jason discuss learners conventional perceptions of what an English language course is and what they perceive as the level of indoctrination suffered by many many learners around the world and how this affects their progress. This then leads into a discussion of the importance of "context" in the learning pr

Episode 6: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 6 - Patterns and English Language Learning

Aug 10 2024 37 mins  
"Pattern Transfer = Language" - Listen to Caroline Swinton, Judy Thompson and Jason West discuss patterns in English language teaching and learning and how you can use the human brain's natural language acquisition ability to dramatically improve the speaking and writing ability of your students. There really aren't many teaching guides and course materials that exploit this very w

Episode 5: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 5 - Judy Thompson Helps Discuss The Future of Teaching As We Know It

Aug 03 2024 36 mins  
International educational truth-monger Judy Thompson, author of English is Crazy and The Backpacker's Guide to Teaching English, joins Caroline and me on the podcast...yay! We do the intros and then get stuck into the general malaise of teaching (including teaching English) as we know it. It is a truly massive topic and one that has energised Judy and me very vociferously for a lon

Episode 4: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 4 - Practice, Misunderstanding, Coping and Corporatisation

Jul 19 2024 37 mins  
In this episode Caroline brings up the big issue of English learners not understanding language during speaking practice and how she, Judy Thompson and her "English is Crazy" book, and others, approach it and try to fix it. Jason has his own slightly different slant on the problem and, in the context of how he and the English Out There method and learning materials work, explains h

Episode 3: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 3 - Economics, Efficacy and Effortless Personalisation for Everyone Who Wants to Speak English

Jul 13 2024 41 mins  
Is there (or has there been) a post-colonial cash cow maintaining the ELT status quo? Listen to Jason West and Caroline Swinton discuss teacher/student ratios, relationship based personalisation, how the two affect speaking practice and their impact upon English course effectiveness and, ultimately, why they seem to have been ignored to enable commercial control and exploitation of

Episode 2: Exploding The Myth of ELT - Episode 2 - How to Practise Speaking English Effectively

Jul 06 2024 37 mins  
Millions upon millions of dedicated English learners around the world are spending hours and hours of their lives desperately trying to practise speaking English and failing to do it in an effective way. This is not some glib off-the-cuff remark it is a fact. Look at this Facebook group, specifically for speaking practice, and see that the 2.2m members are merely sharing jpegs and