Christopher Walker

Teaching for over fifteen years. He is currently the director of studies of International House Bielsko-Biala, and also works as an online teacher trainer with IH World.

The three-operator model

2023-11-22

The teaching of grammar has become too complicated according to the author. He describes a key aspect of grammar students could benefit from learning.

Christopher Walker argues that pairing of the two oral/aural skills -listening and speaking – provides a more natural input/output context than most coursebooks offer where spoken grammar is often extracted from written texts

CLIL versus ESP

2023-01-16

What are the main differences between CLIL and ESP? How much knowledge of the subject does an English teacher need? Are they both forms of language teaching?

One year with Duolingo

2022-07-27

Which language is easiest, Polish, Greek or Spanish? How do you stay motivated? How helpful is gamification for language learning? Read more to find out.

What is teaching?

2022-01-27

As a teacher-trainer it can be useful to have metaphors to help explain various parts of the teachers’ role and the article offers a number of options.

Christopher Walker

The three-operator model

Reconsidering the division

CLIL versus ESP

One year with Duolingo

What is teaching?

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