Textbooks

Articles

• ‘Effective online materials design: What does the evidence say?’ in IATEFL 2023 Harrogate Conference Selections, 2024
• ‘The brain, gender and ELT: Harmless fun or dangerous stereotyping?’ in IATEFL 2022 Conference Selections, 2023
• ‘Where is the evidence for evidence-based teaching?’ in IATEFL 2021 Virtual Conference Selections, 2022
• ‘The importance of prior knowledge’ in EL Gazette, Issue 478 2021
• ‘Using your brain’ in English Teaching Professional, Issue 137 pp 14-16 November 2021
• ‘A critical examination of perceptual learning styles in English language teaching’ (with Russell Mayne) in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 58/2 pp 221-237, 2020
• ‘Using your brain: The importance of background knowledge’ New Routes 72 DISAL September 2020
• ‘Discovery learning or direct instruction? Cognitive load theory and ELT’ in IATEFL Liverpool Conference Selections, 2019
• ‘Evidence or intuition? Categorizing learners using perceptual learning styles’ in Babylonia, Issue 1, 2019
• ‘Use your brain! Exploiting evidence-based teaching strategies in ELT’ (with Patricia Harries) in IATEFL Brighton Conference Selections, 2018
• ‘The problem with learning styles: debunking the meshing hypothesis in English language teaching’ (with Russell Mayne) in Impact Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching, Issue 2, 2018
• ‘Research and teaching: What has neuroscience ever done for us?’ (with Patricia Harries) in IATEFL Glasgow Conference Selections 2017
• ‘Re-imagining ELT: Teaching English in 2017 and Beyond’ (Spanish & English) in Ruta Maestra 21, Editorial Santillana Colombia, 2017
• ‘Four reasons to avoid 'learning styles' – and one alternative’ in British Council Voices Magazine, October 2017
• ‘Neuroscience’ (with Patricia Harries) in IATEFL Voices, Issue 257 p11 July-August 2017
• ‘Changing the way we approach learning styles in teacher education’ (with Patricia Harries) in IATEFL Birmingham Conference Selections 2016
• ‘Do you Believe in Neuromyths?’ (with Patricia Harries) in The Teacher Trainer Journal, October 2016
• ‘Learning styles: Have we been wasting time and resources?’ (Spanish & English) in Ruta Maestra, Editorial Santillana Colombia, 2016
• ‘Learning styles and teacher training: are we perpetuating neuromyths?’ (Online version) (with Patricia Harries) in ELT Journal (70/1) January 2016
• ‘Spanish/English Bilingual Education in Latin America: Why and why not?’ (PDF) in Ruta Maestra, Editorial Santillana Colombia, 2015
• ‘Children, Gender and Learning’ in Primary Methodology Handbook: Practical Ideas for ELT, Richmond Publishing, 2014
• ‘Appropriating English in Mexico’ in MEXTESOL Journal Special Issue: Critical Pedagogies, Vol 30, No 2 2006
• ‘The Effect of Accent on Teachers’ Evaluations of Speech and Job Suitability for Teachers in Mexico’ in Ten Years of Collaboration in ELT: Accounts from Mexico. British Council, 2004
• ‘Syllabus Design in Teacher Education’ in Ten Years of Collaboration in ELT: Accounts from Mexico. British Council, 2004
• ‘Private English / Spanish Bilingual Education in Mexico: Looking at our reality’ in MEXTESOL Journal, Vol 26, Nos 3 and 4 Winter and Spring 2003
• ‘Syllabus Design in Teacher Education’ in MEXTESOL Journal, Vol 27, No.3 Spring 2004

Book Reviews

• English Teaching Professional published by Modern English Publishing Ltd
  • Issue 31 March 2004
  • Issue 32 June 2004
  • Issue 33 July 2004
  • Issue 37 March 2005

Blog Posts

• Are boys better than girls at science and mathematics?
• Do women and men process language differently? Is it neuroscience or neurosexism? (Guest post on Russ Mayne’s Evidence-based EFL blog)
• Are girls better than boys at language?
• Learning styles: Have we been barking up the wrong tree? (Guest post on The New School’s TESOL Blog Uncharted TESOL)
• Neuroscience and teaching English?
• Teachers’ Beliefs
• Teaching Vocabulary: Using Research Findings to Inform Teaching
• Meaningful learning in action: Using learners’ knowledge of L1
• What is ‘Meaningful Learning’?
• The Power of Song
• Making writing relevant: Audience, purpose and interactivity
• Is technology or teaching the problem?
• Is this a “literacy revolution”?
• Is what we do relevant to our students’ lives?

Videos

Explaining Neurosexism at IATEFL 2022

Interview on ‘Evidence Informed ELT’

Interview at IATEFL Liverpool 2019

‘Jeremy Harmer interviews Carol Lethaby’ at IATEFL Glasgow 2017

‘Learning styles and teacher training: are we perpetuating neuromyths?’

‘Changing the way we approach learning styles in teacher education’
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Podcasts

• ‘Word Hunters: Left, right and off-center’ 2023
• ‘What have you changed your mind about?’ TEFL Training Institute, 2019
• ‘What can neuroscience teach us about language teaching?’ TEFL Training Institute, 2018
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