Martin’s EFL Blog

Welcome everyone! This is Martin and I’ll be semi-regularly updating this page with blog posts on my thoughts, opinions and ideas for EFL education, with a focus on Japan in particular.

Online talks and where we go from here

Last Sunday’s talk on communicative tasks with teenage learners went well, I thought. There were about 30 participants so a decent crowd for a Sunday night! Online talks are a bit of an odd experience because as a speaker you are sat there looking at your screen and talking through the slides. It is very […]

Online talk on tasks this Sunday!

Hi everybody! I’ll be giving a free online talk on using communicative tasks for teenage EFL learners this Sunday February 26th from 19:00 (Japan time). Please come along if you’re interested! Details in the link below.   https://jalt.org/event/osaka/23-02-26   Cheers! Martin

MA TESOL graduation

Hello everyone! It’s Martin here. I am pleased to announce that I have graduated from the University of Birmingham’s MA TESOL* course. I studied hard and learnt a lot, and I will always try my best to keep improving as a teacher! *Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages