Damien Herlihy

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Damien Herlihy has been a vlogger for Pavilion ELT since December 2019. His vlog posts draw upon his experiences as a teacher, teacher trainer and school owner, and take into account what his teachers have found most useful as well as his own learning experiences. His vlog posts have been in a number of themed series including: professional development; how methodology books have influenced his teaching practices; and the internet as a virtual textbook and cater to teacher and teacher trainers working in face-to-face, classes, teaching live online or doing a mix of the two in hybrid teaching. Damien has been teaching English for a little over 20 years, with 8 years of running his own language school in Thailand. He is a former IELTS-examiner, an award-winning teacher, and following his Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language, is also an online teacher, a journal article writer and a conference presenter. Alongside all of this, he has also been working on a website for students of English called English Riot and regularly writes blog posts, makes YouTube videos and produces a podcast for the site, and has juggled a move back to his native Australia.

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Ten games your teenage students will enjoy in the ELT classroom

2024-12-06

Games are a great way to engage teenage language students, and offer a whole host of different benefits. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teenagers to explore 10 games your teenage students will enjoy.

Mastering Instruction Giving in Young Learner Classrooms

2024-10-25

How can you deliver clear and effective instructions to young learners? Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Young Learners to explore how you can master giving instructions to avoid confusion and chaos in your young learners classroom.

How to win gold in ELT recruitment

2024-08-22

How can you ensure you are making the right choice when recruiting a new member of staff? Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Management to explore how you can win gold with your recruitment practices and get the right fit each time.

How to pick the best vocab for your class in ten easy steps

2024-06-06

There are over 600,000 word families in English, but students don’t need to learn all of them. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Vocabulary to explore how you can select vocabulary to teach in the classroom.

Ten ways to improve your teaching observation

2024-04-11

A bad observation can damage the teacher and the observer. So how can they be improved? Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teaching Training to suggest 10 things you can do before and during the observation to prevent disaster.

Ten ways to find out your students’ REAL pronunciation problems

2024-02-09

What are our students’ real pronunciation needs? Here, Damien Herlihy looks at 10 ideas from ETpedia Pronunciation that can help you find out. He explains how he has used these tips and activities in his own teaching practice, and suggests how you can do the same.

Global Voices: A short story describing Damien’s unique experiences

2024-01-23

The author shares his teaching and learning experiences.

How to deal with emergent language in the classroom

2023-12-01

How can we do a deep dive into classroom language, rather than focusing on shallow feedback? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy talks about the whats and whys of learner-generated texts using ideas from MET 32.6 and real-life teaching scenarios, and shares a detailed example on how to approach emergent language after a task.

The time management tool every teacher should know about!

2023-10-06

How do you manage your time? Do you feel tasks pressing at the start of the week? Is it the same for your students? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy brings the concept of a time matrix to life using ideas from MET 32.5 and real-life teaching scenarios. It’s well worth watching to help get to grips with effective time management!

Young Learner Teaching SECRETS Every Language Teacher Should Know

2023-08-13

Hands up who teaches, or has teachers teaching, very young learners? What tips have you/they learnt along the way? What would you like to know more about? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien dives into our new book, Teaching and Learning English in the Early Years, to reveal some teaching secrets you should know.

Four-Year-Olds 101: What you need to know as a teacher

2023-06-13

What does the term ‘the magic 4s’ mean to you? Would you say there is magic or chaos in teaching four-year-olds? Watch Damian delving into this topic, and discover what he unearths… in doing so, you will also learn five ways you can get the most out of your young learner classes.

To drill or not to drill

2023-04-14

How often do you use drilling in class? What benefits can you list? Watch to learn about the ELT pendulum and where drilling sits, before finding out about five drilling activities you can use effectively in the classroom from tomorrow.

The interconnectedness of skills: Why speaking is key

2023-02-13

How often do you use speaking in class? Would you say the fluency versus accuracy practice is balanced, and why does it matter? Watch to discover about how speaking fits in the ecosystem of students’ learning, what role the five R’s play and why speaking is integral to your learners’ progress.

Is feedback a waste of time?

2022-12-05

What ways do you give feedback to your students? Do you think it is effective? Do your students feel it is effective? Watch to learn a powerful feedback technique and ways to maximise students’ voice, then decide.

How to actually change your language students’ study habits

2022-10-07

Why should students develop better study habits? And how can you make habits stick? Watch to learn ten practical ways you can help your students develop more effective studying habits which in turn could improve their learning outcomes.