This is the third episode of Delivering Development, our podcast on continuing professional development for language teachers and administrators. You can listen to the episode below on the embedded player, and you can also listen and subscribe to this and future podcasts at the various locations shown at the bottom of the show notes.

We welcome comments and feedback, which can be left either here or at the various other locations where you can get our podcast. We also welcome information on specific CPD opportunities, such as online courses, webinars, conferences etc., and also suggestions for future topics.

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Show notes

Introduction:

It is 23 July, 2019. Welcome to episode 3 of the Delivering Development podcast, helping language teachers and others in the field to enhance their professional development. My name is Kevin Westbrook, and with me today are Neil Bullock and Laura Styles.

Kevin introduced the first slot, looking at suggestions for how listeners could pursue their professional development during the summer break in the northern hemisphere. The others then contributed their ideas.

This was followed by the Tech Tips section. The links for the tips are below:

Kevin – information management

Feeder- https://feeder.co/reader and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=feeder.co and https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feeder-co-rss-feed-reader/id668210239

Neil – using Twitter, an example from aviation

@aviationsafety / @eurocontrol

Laura –  MOOCs

https://www.edx.org/micromastershttps://www.coursera.org/https://www.futurelearn.com/

After the tips, Neil introduced a discussion on ESP, using aviation English as an example

Pete’s publication was ’30 Language Teaching Methods’, which can be found here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Thornburys-Language-Teaching-Methods/dp/110840846X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36LIL8OJFO0CI&keywords=30+language+teaching+methods&qid=1565969213&s=gateway&sprefix=30+language%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1

And here  is the link to EL Gazette, where Pete has a regular review column

www.elgazette.com

Our podcast is hosted on Spreaker. This is the link to the show page: https://www.spreaker.com/show/delivering-development

Delivering Development is also available at the following locations:

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Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id2152936

Contact details for the participants on this podcast:

Neil Bullock:

http://linkedin.com/in/neil-bullock-919ba151

Laura Styles:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljstyles/

Pete Sharma and Kevin Westbrook:

http://kevwes9.dreamhosters.com/about/ 

Music:

The intro and outro are by permission of Katrina Monis. You can find the album the music is from by this talented singer and musician here:

Sunny Day

Conclusion

This is a monthly podcast. You will be able to access it at the Pete Sharma Associates web site in the blog section. The address is www.psa.eu.comIt is also available from spreaker.com and the usual podcasting aggregators such as Apple and Google. Links will be in the show notes that you can find on the PSA web site. Thank you for listening to Delivering Development. Check out our web site if you want to know more, and join us next month, when we will be looking at self-reflection, skills matrices and seeing how the introduction by Neil to aviation English can be generalised to ESP of all kinds. 

Episode 3

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