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Modern English Teacher blog

MET blogger David Dodgson Modern English Teacher's resident blogger David Dodgson has worked in ELT for 20 long and fruitful years.

He has worked in Kazakhstan, Bahrain, Turkey and Gabon, gaining experience with young learners, adults, EAL students and exam preparation classes, and holds an MA in EdTech and TESOL and the Trinity DipTESOL.

Having spent all of that time abroad, David is currently relishing the challenge of teaching in the UK for the first time as EAL Coordinator in a leading independent school.

He started blogging several years ago as a way to reflect on his teaching and learning experiences and has also written for publications like MET, ETp and TESL-EJ. You can find his personal blog at davedodgson.blogspot.com.

David’s interests include supporting learning with technology, and teacher self-development. He also uses digital games as authentic materials for language learning, and blogs about it at eltsandbox.wordpress1.com

Blogposts

Action to Research (and back again)

Action to Research (and back again)

Action to Research (and back again)

In the third post of this series about research in the classroom, David Dodgson explains how he engages in cycles of action research to investigate and experiment with new ideas, understand learners better, and develop professionally.

From Research to Action – Using Articles to Inform Practice

From Research to Action – Using Articles to Inform Practice

From Research to Action – Using Articles to Inform Practice

In the second post of this series about research in the classroom, David Dodgson highlights how two Modern English Teacher articles informed his approach to introducing mobile devices with his teenage learners.

Bringing Research To Your Classroom

Bringing Research To Your Classroom

Bringing Research To Your Classroom

In his first post as Modern English Teacher resident blogger, David Dodgson considers how we can make use of research as part of our development. He looks at barriers to using research, how to overcome them and how to make research part of our CPD.