Delivering development

Delivering development

This podcast covers all aspects of professional development for language teachers. While we are serious about what we do, we hope we do this with humour!

Episodes

Episode 32

June 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Kevin and Laura focus on the evolving impact of Artificial Intelligence on language teaching and assessment, exploring both the opportunities and challenges it presents for educators and students. The discussions highlight how AI can be a tool for efficiency (e.g., generating feedback), but also raise concerns about critical thinking, academic integrity, and adapting traditional teaching and assessment methods to a rapidly changing...
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Episode 31

May 6, 2025 • 32 mins
Join Kevin, Laura and Neil as they continue their series of podcasts about language teaching in the context of Artificial Intelligence, this time looking at general issues and also tackling the crucial topic of what AI means for assessment in language teaching! We're in a fascinating time of transition, and the conversation explores the challenges and opportunities AI presents. How do we navigate AI's impact on generating content f...
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Episode 30

April 3, 2025 • 34 mins
In part two of their series on AI's impact on language teaching, Kevin, Laura and Neil focus on using AI to do things that weren't possible before, rather than doing the same things using AI. The episode ends with a compelling student success story. Plus, thoughts on educational policy and the unique role of language teachers in the age of AI.
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Episode 29

February 17, 2025 • 35 mins
In Episode 29 of the Delivering Development Podcast, Kevin, Laura  and Neil give a general overview of the impact of AI on language teaching. We also discuss in general terms how educators can adapt their teaching methods during this transitional period to ensure students still get the most out of their learning. This includes a few examples of integrating AI as a learning tool while recognizing its limitations. Is AI a 'bad friend...
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Episode 28

October 23, 2024 • 35 mins
In this episode, Kevin, Laura and Neil start with a discussion about flipped learning and then move on to some of the fundamentals of how to approach blended learning design. In a shock move, Kevin, Laura and Neil also agreed on something.
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Episode 27

June 5, 2024 • 30 mins
The 27th episode of Delivering Development, our podcast on continuing professional development for language teachers and administrators, takes an initial, high-level, look at AI and its impact on the languages field.
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Episode 26

May 15, 2024 • 37 mins
In this edition we continued with a discussion of some terms relating to blended learning, in a possibly vain attempt to gain some clearer idea of what some of the terms mean and, indeed, whether they are useful or just confuse the issue.
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Episode 25

November 7, 2023 • 32 mins
Earlier this year I was interviewed by Ruth Pringle as part of her project to match learners to teachers in a very targeted way. I liked the idea, but particularly liked the way we got talking about language professionals working together and helping each other rather than competing against each other. So, I asked her to come along to our podcast so we could talk more about it.
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Episode 24

August 18, 2023 • 36 mins
Today, the plan was to look at some of the terminology around blended learning. We did a decent job on “flipped learning”, I think, but that was all we had time for! We did cover some interesting ground on the nature of blended learning as well though.
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Episode 23

June 19, 2023 • 28 mins
An episode on the difficult area of teaching listening with guest Anthony Green. This is definitely a subject we are going to follow-up on!
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Episode 22

May 8, 2023 • 27 mins
The first of a regular series of episodes revolving around blended learning to address the need to better understand some of the fundamentals of this aspect of language teaching. We start with an overview of the field.
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Episode 21

May 3, 2023 • 9 mins
A short solo episode to get back in the saddle and also to publicise my interview with Ruth Pringle.
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Episode 20

November 7, 2022 • 32 mins
A combination of family holidays, workload, building work at home and a lot of editing means that this episode recorded at the IATEFL conference in Belfast in May is only now being published in November 2022! However, it was a really interesting, wide-ranging chat with Kevin, Neil and Pete together face-to-face for the first time for a podcast recording.
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Episode 18

January 20, 2022 • 37 mins
This edition is a special interview with Rachael Roberts. It seems to me that many articles, presentations etc. I have experienced about mental health put the affected person in the position of a passive adapter to a bad situation, one that is usually caused by an external agent such as an employer. The advice is to practice, for example, mindfulness, to help cope with that bad situation. That seemed wrong to me and I was intereste...
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Episode 19

December 29, 2021 • 25 mins
A concluding episode for 2021 in our podcast for language professionals. Kevin and Laura talk about some potential positive effects for the industry.
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Episode 17

November 30, 2021 • 43 mins
After a bit of a break over the summer (and autumn!), we finally managed to get everyone together for the promised follow-up to our panel discussion on professional development at the IATEFL 2021 annual conference.
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Episode 16

June 8, 2021 • 34 mins
Vocabulary is the theme for our latest podcast for language professionals. Our name for this edition is "croissants and cauliflowers". You will have to listen to find out why, but we had a lot of fun recording it.
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Episode 15

May 9, 2021 • 37 mins
In this episode of our podcast for for language-teaching professionals, we consider some of the issues around teaching pronunciation,
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Episode 14

March 14, 2021 • 29 mins
This episode of the podcast for language teaching professionals concludes a three-part series on assessment. In this episode we look at some aspects such as specifications, working with others and simple analyses and why they are important in the real world of teaching.
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Episode 13

January 25, 2021 • 24 mins
Kevin and Neil follow up last episode's discussion of what to consider before writing an assessment with some thoughts about what to do after you have written those questions.
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