Really enjoyed giving a talk at #CNO Talendag at the University of Antwerp last Friday. A very motivated group of teachers joined in on exploring how we can use accessible poetry as an engaging language learning tool. #elt

Present simple for a past event in news headlines. An example showing that we use the tense for much more than just present time reference. #reallyrealgrammar

Guess I’ll be heading to #brighton again next spring. Hope to see many of my #iatefl friends there! And oh yes, surprise surprise, I’ll be talking about grammar teaching 🤭(again).

Who said imperatives are (mainly?) used for orders? #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

A typical example of a common conditional (though not so often taught) present simple + imperative for (strong) advice #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Imperatives used as encouragement, rather than orders or instructions. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Imperative with please for a request and modal might expressing possibility #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Conditional with imperative expressing a request and interesting use of a plural verb (check) with the subject ‘Our team’ - team as a group of people? #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Funny message in the Erasmus Hogeschool canteen at #belta25 with an imperative inspired by the movie Forrest Gump. Once again not an order or command, but rather an encouragement #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Dries Debackere from De Taalsector sharing his main takeaways from #IATEFL2025 at #belta25

Ron Mukerji showing a series of AI tools that can support teachers at #belta25

Mario Lecluyze sharing his experiences with using ChatGPT for marking his students’ writing assignments in his inspiring talk at #belta25

Plenary speaker Grzegorz Spiewak delivering a thought-provoking and engaging talk at #belta25

And #belta25 has started!

One of the two closing plenary speakers, 11-y-old Ali Waters, brought on stage in @emilybrysonelt.bsky.social ‘s workshop at #IATEFL2025

doodling and plenty of visuals in @emilybrysonelt.bsky.social ‘s workshop obviously #IATEFL2025

@emilybrysonelt.bsky.social starting by showing her own role models #IATEFL2025

Hugh Dellar discussing how we’re shaped as teachers at #IATEFL2025

Neil McMillan including some poetry humour in his highly entertaining plenary at #IATEFL2025

Neil McMillan quoting different findings stating that implicit learning/ knowledge is in fact better #IATEFL2025

This session on linguistic landscape tasks contained fine samples of English and nice learner reflections. #IATEFL2025

Trying out the Lightning Talks format (receptively) #IATEFL2025 Quite a feat to share meaningful content in just three minutes. (And when not meaningful, the pain’s over in just 3 minutes)

Luiz Otavio Barros encouraging us to ‘get dirty with language’ in his talk on Demand High teaching #IATEFL2025

Michael Carrier quoting Chomsky ‘AI is high tech plagiarism’ #IATEFL2025

@danielxerri.bsky.social sharing this fine quote from Donald Freeman on research. #IATEFL2025

@danielxerri.bsky.social @danielxerri asking whether ‘research’ is a ‘dirty’ word? #IATEFL2025

Rita Divéki delivering a very practical talk on AI-powered discussions on controversial issues #IATEFL2025

@leopaladino.bsky.social Leandro Paladino delivering a great talk on how to get your students beyond B2 level. And a lead role for Leo Selivan‘s cat.

Gemma Archer delivering a great talk on decoding Scottish speech #IATEFL2025

A few pictures from Dagmara Tanska’s engaging and highly informative and practical workshop on ADHD. Without any doubt the best I’ve seen on the topic. #IATEFL2025

Great pictures and content in Eric Nicaise’s talk I cycled across the UK and I teach culture #IATEFL2025

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, professor in cognitive psychology talking about spaced and retrieval practice #IATEFL2025

Engaging workshop by @leoselivan on (linguistic) factors that affect L2 vocabulary learning. #Iatefl2025

Jon Hird sharing some practical ideas to integrate spoken grammar in our teaching. #IATEFL2025

David Byrne and Mark Heffernan showing what they consider as real-life objectives. How will this lesson help you in your life. #IATEFL2025

Kerstin Sandstrom sharing a listening pairs activity as a less fatiguing alternative to dictogloss #IATEFL2025

Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan mentioning ‘principled eclecticism’ as a kind of current methodology principle #iatefl2025

Sounds familiar what Ken Lackman is suggesting here, just like #ReallyRealGrammar #iatefl2025

@kenlackman starting off with a bold statement: collocations are not important #iatefl2025

Ian Pemberton sharing estimates of native speaker vocabulary size #iatefl2025

Andrew Walkley rightly stating we should position our teaching focus towards the language students are going to actually use #iatefl2025

A plenary without a PowerPoint or Prezi. It can be done! Just the inspiring voice of ELT living legend Catherine Walter at #IATEFL2025 on what has changed over the past 50 years of language teaching.

Outgoing IATEFL president @PopovskiAleks opening #IATEFL2025 What a wonderful conference venue here in Edinburgh!

Three examples of imperatives that are all but orders (even though that’s often the first coursebook usage rule). These are rather advice, encouragement or invitations. These might even pop up in my #iatefl2025 talk on Thursday. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Present perfect simple question (condensed, without subject) for a period up to now. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Use of WILL + infinitive with no real future meaning, but more factual, rest assured that #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Will+infinitive (negative) expressing certainty #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

In case you wondered. I’ll happily be presenting again at #iatefl2025 in Edinburgh. TITLE: What's the frequency, Kenneth? Frequency principle in grammar teaching NAME(S) OF PRESENTER(S): Bruno Leys DAY: Thursday 10 April 2025 TIME: 15:50-16:20 LENGTH: 30 mins ROOM: Moorfoot* AUDIENCE CAPACITY: 200

WILL future expressing certainty, an engagement/promise #ReallyRealGrammar #linguisticlandscapes

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