In this episode, Gerlinde Koppitsch, a Senior Lecturer in English for Engineering and IT and a researcher at the Carinthia University, Austria has a simple and honest conversation with the host Ioana Cretu. They reflect on how teachers as well as their learners stand on quicksand rather than solid ground; how teachers strive to redefine […]
Listen to award-winning ELT business strategist and mentor Rachael Roberts, who has helped language professionals around the world develop their own businesses through her programme ‘Designed to Flourish’ and other work (https://earnlearnthriveinelt.com/). Rachael gave the closing plenary ‘Teaching at a turning point’ at the 2026 IATEFL conference in Brighton, which you can watch online at https://www.iateflconference.org/about-the-conference/plenary-recordings . In this […]
Listen to Alla Fridrikh, a specialist in language acquisition in emergency contexts. She talks to Dolon Gupta about what ESP means in war-torn Ukraine: how learning material has to be continuously revised for exhausted and traumatized learners; how mindfulness techniques have to be re-imagined, in language classes, to help bring peace and calm to students […]
Rudi Camerer, an intercultural competence expert, is one of those people whose career has moved seamlessly from language education to assessment to policy to real world international communication. His breadth of experience comes through as he talks about how English functions as a global working language today, why intercultural competence is no longer optional in […]
