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Damien Herlihy

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. You can find out more about Damien at his website: www.englishriot.com.
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Ten ways to find out your students’ REAL pronunciation problems

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

The author shares his teaching and learning experiences.

How to deal with emergent language in the classroom

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!

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

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.
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