This is the sixth 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.
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Show notes

Introduction

It is the 13th of December, 2019. Welcome to episode 6 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 Laura Styles, Neil Bullock and Pete Sharma.

This episode brings in a slightly different format that we hope will enable us to look at some of the bigger subject areas in more depth. Today, we are looking at a structured approach to ESP teaching, based loosely on the British Council process, but also using some of the insights from previous podcasts.

Tech tips

Kevin – TweetDeck – https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

Laura – Doceri – https://doceri.com/win_doceri.php

ESP

The discussion covered the following areas:

Identify students’ needs
Define programme goals and objectives of the instruction
Syllabus design:
- identify topics, themes, situations
- design learning activities and tasks
- define types of assessments
Select suitable material

Pete’s publication

Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom

Chris Roland

Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN: 9781912755004

Link: https://www.pavpub.com/pavilion-elt/teaching-english/understanding-teenagers-in-the-elt-classroom

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

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.com. It is also available from spreaker.com and the usual podcasting aggregators such as Apple and Google. Links are below. Thank you for listening to Delivering Development. Check out our web site if you want to know more, and join us next month.