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Geoff Jordan on ELT Now and How It Could Be


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Geoff Jordan is a teacher, trainer, academic, and author. Geoff has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, has worked at ESADE, Barcelona for 28 years, and recently co-authored a book with the late Mike Long called "ELT Now and How It Could Be."His main academic interests are: theories of SLA, psycholinguistics, teaching practice and computational linguistics.

Specifically, Geoff touches on:

  • his beginnings in the ELT industry
  • working alongside Mike Long, Peter Skehan and Henry Widdowson in the early days
  • his new book "ELT Now and How It Could Be," co-written with the late Mike Long
  • how commercialization has hurt the language industry
  • why students should be angry after 300 hours of study when they still can't "go to the pub in London"
  • why task-based learning is the only way to go
  • why "presenting" language is inefficacious 
  • how the future of the industry is in niche courses
  • advising students to be more resourceful in their learning 
  • listener questions
  • More on Geoff:

    1. Follow him on Twitter/X

    2. Check out his website

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