My co-writer and the former secondary teacher with the broadest knowledge of second language learning and teaching research, Dr Gianfranco Conti, has been blogging a lot recently as he pursues his latest speaking tour of the UK. I sometimes wonder if he ever sleeps. When we wrote our first edition of The Language Teacher Toolkit in 2016 a major source of the material were the blog posts Gianfranco wrote in 2015. Recently, he has produced a spate of informative, research-informed posts which every language teacher should find illuminating. The easiest way to find them is just to go to his blog at gianfrancoconti.com and browse. In recent weeks he has covered areas such as grammar, listening, sentence builders/EPI and teaching via topics. Notably, he has returned to the work of John Field, a leading writer in the area of listening instruction. We turned his perspective on listening instruction into our book Breaking the Sound Barrier: Teaching Language Learners How to Listen ...
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