Geoff Jordan on ELT Now and How It Could Be

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Geoff Jordan is a teacher, trainer, academic, and author. Geoff has a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, has worked at ESADE, Barcelona for 28 years, and recently co-authored a book with the late Mike Long called "ELT Now and How It Could Be."His main academic interests are: theories of SLA, psycholinguistics, teaching practice and computational linguistics.

Specifically, Geoff touches on:

• his beginnings in the ELT industry
• working alongside Mike Long, Peter Skehan and Henry Widdowson in the early days
• his new book "ELT Now and How It Could Be," co-written with the late Mike Long
• how commercialization has hurt the language industry
• why students should be angry after 300 hours of study when they still can't "go to the pub in London"
• why task-based learning is the only way to go
• why "presenting" language is inefficacious 
• how the future of the industry is in niche courses
• advising students to be more resourceful in their learning 
• listener questions

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2. Check out his website

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