Celebrating one year of Dictogloss in Action. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/a-yea...

Is predictability the spice of life in the classroom? Reflectilng on Q&A from my presentation in Okinawa. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/the-p...

Final tests: Paper or Online? sielpabooks.com/blog/f/test-...

The stories behind what's in my office. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/what%...

A bit about care in this week's blog sielpabooks.com/blog/f/the-p...

Happy New Year everyone! Here's a bit of a look ahead to 2026. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/looki...

Last blog post for 2025. Reflections on the past 12 months. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/looki...

Website fixed and we're good to go with this week's post on the current state of English education in Japan (it's a little worrying, but I'm not "bashing" okay?) sielpabooks.com/blog/f/what-...

A bit about stats😳 sielpabooks.com/blog/f/super...

Taking a break from English education and motivation today to discuss health as we move into winter. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/keepi...

A preview to next week's workshop in Shiojiri sielpabooks.com/blog/f/teach...

A novel approach to studying demotivation? In this week's blog, I take a look at using coloring in for qualitative research. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/drawi...

Talking a bit about AI in this week's blog post. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/noteb...

In this week's blog post, I take a look at mixed programming. Absolutely nothing to do with computer programmin, but something much more important. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/mixed...

This week, I take a look at our new book published with Candlin & Mynard. Many thanks to my co-editor, Matt Wilson, for always keeping it positive, all the authors for their amazing patience, and Jo Mynard for her support in the publication process. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/publi...

New book coming out this Friday! Many thanks to Jo Mynard and her team at Candlin & Mynard for their amazing support and guidance. Huge congratulations also to all the authors for their incredible patience and brilliant writing. More about this book in this week's blog post．

This week's blog post looks at a new course I'm teaching and the first theory of motivation we'll be discussing. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/teach...

This week, I take a look at a boardgame about the growth mindset I created for tomorrow's talk in Kobe. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/growt...

This week's blog post takes a sneak preview to an upcoming chapter on TBLT and student motivation. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/first...

In this week's blog, I take a look at a new book that will be published by SielpA Books this coming November. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/intro...

Reflections on JACET2025. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/refle...

This Friday's blog post is going to be a reflection on this year's JACET conference, including my co-presented workshop with the brilliant @martharamirezco But, before that, Martha had some lovely words to say. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

Just a short post this week, but just as sweet! sielpabooks.com/blog/f/why-d...

This week marks 28 years since I first came to Japan. In today's blog, I look back at an English newspaper I used to write and how it has helped me even today. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/fukuj... #JETprogram #assistantlanguageteacher #福島女子高校 #teachingEnglish

In this week's blog post, I look at a discussion topic that emerged during last weekend's JASELE conference. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/eye-c...

This week's blog covers a short seminar I did this week sielpabooks.com/blog/f/two-h...

My paper on speech to text and self confidence is now available. It's open access, so please share, retweet, download, cite, etc. Top tier journal, so I'm very pleased with this one! #CALL #languagelearning #flippedlearning www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this week's blog post, I take a look at how AI can make us fall in love with ourselves: sielpabooks.com/blog/f/when-...

This week, I take a look at how I assess my students' speaking skills. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/asses...

In this week's blog, I give a brief overview of my presentation this weekend and upcoming paper. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/previ...

My presentation for #JALTCALL this weekend is ready to go. I will be talking about . . . . well, you can see what I'll be talking about in my title slide below. Hope to see some friendly faces there! (The paper for this study will be published very soon. More on that to come!)

In this week's post, I look at studying abroad. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/study...

Talking about emotions in language education is this week's blog. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/emoti...

Didn't get a chance to put this on social media yesterday. But here's my blog post on incorporating heavy metal music into teacher training. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/heavy...

In this week's blog, we look at bringing metacognition into the language classroom. #dictogloss sielpabooks.com/blog/f/teach...

The schedule for #JALTCALL 2025 is in. I'll be presenting my research on using speech-to-text technology and self-confidence on the last day of the conference (July 20) at 12:15. Looking forward to my first JALTCALL conference in almost 10 years! I wonder who will be there.

This week's blog post (I didn't get around to sharing the link until now): Looking at an unfortunate recent experience that is unfortunately becoming more commonplace in academia. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/when-...

A bit about using role plays in this week's blog post. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/role-...

This week, I take another look at the Self-Worth Theory and reasons why students might not do their best in class, even if they are motivated. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/more-...

Celebrating my co-authored paper being accepted for publication with some homemade carrot cake. This paper getting accepted in a journal of this high quality really means a lot. It's amazing the difference one email can make!

In this week's blog post, I give a preview to my short presentation on Sunday about living in Japan for a long time. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/six-p...

In this week's blog post, I walk through my process and philosophy as a peer reviewer. #PhDChat #AcademicWriting #PeerReview sielpabooks.com/blog/f/insid...

This week’s blog explores how adding twists to a classic quiz show can liven up your classroom! Includes free, ready-to-use materials. Give it a try! sielpabooks.com/blog/f/bring... #ELT #EdTech #TeachingTips #QuizShow #ClassroomFun #FreeResources

My former student and I wrote a paper that was rejected by several journals for reasons that didn't make sense, so we submitted it to a Q1 level journal instead. It was accepted.

In this week's blog post, I take a look at how the game karuta could be used in language learning. #ELT #YoungLearners #Karuta #EnglishTeaching #EFL #ESL #LanguageLearning sielpabooks.com/blog/f/rethi...

In this week's blog post, I take a look at my dog's communication proficiency. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/canin...

My Season Pass for World Expo 88 was found! sielpabooks.com/blog/f/memor...

With the World Expo beginning in Osaka this week, I look back at my own memories of Expo 88 in Brisbane. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/memor...

In this week's blog post, I take a look at the pronunciation and rhythm of English. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/you-d...

In this week's blog, we are delighted to have a guest post from Simon Cooke, co-author of Dictogloss in Action, who discusses the technique of transcribing in language learning. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/trans...