"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" - Bruno Leys starting his #IATEFL2025 session on frequency in grammar teaching with some (ridiculous) examples of the Passive Voice he has found in published #ELT materials. Google them if you don't believe it.

Frequency of the present cont./progressive in the corpus, which often run counter to the way it's taught in #ELT Bruno Leys at #IATEFL2025 #reallyrealgrammar

Some more (misrepresented) grammar points that we need to talk about - hopefully next year Bruno Leys at #IATEFL2025 P.S. If you're wondering about the title, it's a line from a poem by A. Marvell

Fiona Mauchline (no longer on X) on why learners, especially young learners, need empathetic human teachers | Interaction, motivation and learning: a match made in heaven at #IATEFL2025

Classic!

What were you told in your teacher training that turned out to be a myth? 🧐 We asked ELT teachers and the answers might surprise you! From “4 weeks is enough” to “just follow the coursebook”... here are the myths they've busted along the way. #TeachEnglish #AdvancingLearning

Jonathan Marks is running a free webinar on "The Secret Lives of Consonant Clusters" for the IATEFL Pron Special Interest Group on Saturday 24th May at 1.00pm UK time. Register ahead! pronsig.iatefl.org/consonant_clus…

Not carried out on #EFL / #ESL (or any #language learners for that matter), but the results can easily be - and indeed should be - applied to #L2 learning #elt #mfltwitterati

Got an email from Quizizz (now Wayground) saying that they're changing their name. But to what? #EdTech #ellchat

The "hard" decisions faced while editing a kids' ed video script: - Should they sit in a circle or semi-circle? - Interviewer: on or off camera? - How do we make dialogs - about Mei's 10-hr study day in China to Amar's dream while working two jobs - less stilted? Love my job!

"PhD level" - what does it even mean? bbc.com/news/articles/…

How many of my colleagues are in the final throes of submitting their #IATEFL proposals? I do wonder if @IATEFL keeps stats on how many submissions come in on the last day and, more specifically, in those frantic last couple of hours before the deadline!

Most of these apply to #EFL/#ESL teaching too

ChatGPT has just called me by my name