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We are witnessing how language teaching is transforming worldwide and the new phenomena of language teachers calling themselves language coaches and the question here is what is this? Are there any guidelines or is there a definition? For those who know me, I am the creator of Neurolanguage Coaching®, a new approach and method for language learning which combines the principles of neuroscience together with coaching a vehicle of delivering the learning process. Back in 2012 I created the definition of Neurolanguage Coaching®, “Neurolanguage Coaching® is the efficient and fast transfer of language knowledge from the Language Coach to the Language Coachee with sustainable effects facilitated by brain based coaching and coaching principles.” I am deeply interested and curious to understand what other colleagues and fellow professionals think about the topic of Language Coaching and what they believe it is. So, I have interviewed some of these professionals. I do hope you enjoy listening and interested to know what you think language coaching is :-).
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Saturday Mar 09, 2019
Saturday Mar 09, 2019
Today my podcast is really about reflecting on all the wonderful contributions from the previous guests on what Language Coaching is for them and taking stock of all the different perspectives relating to language coaching in the world.
And at this point, I would like to bring in some further exploration and explanation to clarify “what is Neurolanguage Coaching?”. So, in this podcast I would like to give my listeners worldwide some insights and clear indications what this means. Firstly, Neurolanguage Coaching is an approach, process or even method to learn any language and not only English. It is crystalised into a different structure that gives coaches a backbone to their whole process. The language learning revolves around the 3Ms and PACT PQC, (for further information check out my book Neurolanguage Coaching https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neurolanguage-Coaching-Friendly-Language-Learning/dp/1910864943 ).
The language learning is delivered through brain-friendly coaching conversations, whereby the coach has constant awareness of the impact of his/her communication patterns with the learner. The Neurolanguage Coach is skilfully trained around how to coach around emotional triggers or negative mindset or even bad learning memories, and above all the Neurolanguage Coach knows how to trigger connections between languages following exactly how the brain learns language through association, which is something that I have personally experienced throughout my life. It can be used as a vehicle for any language and also I would like to add it can be used for beginners too or people who are a low level and wish to fast track. However, the lower the level of the learner, the more the process is delivered through the learner’s native language, block-building up the knowledge of the new language.
Over the next weeks, I will be interviewing more and more guests but some of them may have a totally different perspective of coaching or language coaching.
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Emma Sue Prince is a specialist in experiential learning and believes strongly that this methodology is key to developing life skills and soft skills as it is the only way to develop self-awareness, upon which all behavioural change is based.
She delivers powerful workshops in this regard and does so with many different target groups including “closed” groups such as Muslim communities in Bangladesh and North Africa and diverse groups in the UK including lawyers, doctors and software engineers.
She also trains trainers to facilitate using the same methodology. Her successful approach lies in working totally in the moment with a group and with what emerges from that group. She is passionate about a group developing their own context for skills such as empathy, adaptability and being proactive. In this way real and powerful learning outcomes emerge from which strategies, progression and ideas can be defined.
Emma Sue is committed to supporting young people and her workshops are also run with secondary schools, youth offending teams and with young people who are not in education, training or employment. Emma Sue works in emerging and developing countries as well as in the UK training trainers, designing materials and providing consultancy on employability skills. Her work has taken her all over the world and has given her a leading reputation in the field.
The skills Emma Sue focuses on are adaptability, critical thinking, empathy, integrity, optimism, being proactive and resilience and she runs experiential learning workshops on these skills to a range of clients in various sectors and many of them native speakers.
www.unimenta.com with a free membership website for trainers working with soft skills and quite a few free resources to access.
Listen to Emma Sue’s podcast - 7 Skills for the Future out on iTunes and also here: https://unimenta.com/podcast/
The interview with Sarah Mercer is of particular interest to educators, talking about teacher well-being, adaptability and resilience.
Emma Sue's book - 7 Skills for the Future published by Pearson Business - is out in all major book-stores at the moment and on Amazon.
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Steve Flinders is a freelance writer, trainer and coach based in Malta. He writes regularly about business communication; provides training in international communication and leadership; and has an Institute of Leadership and Management level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring.
He has a particular interest in improving communication in international politics, public administration, trade unionism, human resources and the media, and has worked with many senior people in all of these areas. He has written a number of books relating to these fields including "Leading People" and "Key Terms in People Management"
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Marjorie Rosenberg, originally from the US, taught at the tertiary level for over twenty years in Graz, Austria and currently works with corporate clients, trains teachers and writes ELT materials.
Her publications include In Business, two Business Advantage Personal Study Books, CDROM materials for FCE and CAE (Cambridge University Press), English for Banking and Finance 2 (Pearson), a revised version of Pass BEC Vantage (National Geographic-Cengage), and two methodology books, Spotlight on Learning Styles (Delta Publishing) and Creating Activities for Different Learner Types (Wayzgoose Press).
She has recently revised Communicative Business English Activities (Express Publishing) and is one of the core authors of Business Partner (Pearson). She has held workshops and talks at more than 100 international conferences and been a plenary speaker at over twenty conferences around the globe.
Marjorie served as the Chair of TEA (Teachers of English in Austria) from 2003 - 2005 and as IATEFL BESIG (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language Business English Special Interest Group) Coordinator from 2009 - 2015. From April 2015 - April 2018 she held the posts of IATEFL VP and President as a member of the IATEFL Board of Trustees.
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Clare Crawford is a Certified Professional Neurolanguage Coach and Trainer®, Certified Professional Coach – (RNCP Niv. 1) and an Advanced Skills Teacher. She specialises in the development of communicative skills in business English and also accompanies non-native speakers in their integration and career progression within French companies and institutions.
As an Advanced Skills Teacher in the United Kingdom, she worked with teams of teachers to carry out action research into motivating learners and integrating new technologies in the classroom. Clare considers herself as a «late-developer», learning French, her second language, in her 40s but she has caught the language learning bug and is currently progressing, slowly, in German.
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Dr. Monceaux holds degrees in English and Modern Languages (B.A. & M.A.), Counseling and Human Development (M.Ed.), and Educational Leadership, Ed.D. with a concentration in Global Education.
He began teaching K-12 in 1999 and in 2006, began teaching ESOL students at Lamar University.
Since then, he has offered more than 50 professional development workshops and training sessions
to educators from all over the world in South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Spain, France,
Italy, UK, Costa Rica, and Chile.
Currently, Dr. Monceaux is the Associate Director, Lamar Pathway Program at Lamar University
where he is responsible for program supervision, curriculum, course crafting, as well as teaching
courses in the ESOL concentration, M.Ed. Teacher Leadership Program and a variety of ESL Pathway
Programs. Additionally, he teaches a variety of courses part-time at Lamar Institute of Technology.
Sunday Feb 10, 2019
Sunday Feb 10, 2019
Super to connect and speak with Dana in Argentina. Dana Poklepovic is the CEO & Director at DPL Corporate Language Dynamics. She holds a Phd in Modern Languages and is an Ontological and a C-IQ coach.
She has over 20 years of experience in the field of communication skills and training & Consulting for companies and professionals. Dana delivers coaching and leadership training specializing in executive and leadership coaching, training in presentation skills, and the leader coach. She runs and designs Train the Trainer and workshops for communication skills and Business English trainers, soft skills training and using coaching tools for specialized sectors.