In 2006 Jane Willis and Corony Edwards won a British Council ELT Innovation award for their book Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching and donated their award to

Response to Frank in Mexico, who asks:

In a survey we carried out a few years ago, we asked teachers who were implementing task-based learning in their lessons what their biggest problems were.

Albert's Engineering students' needs analysis task, (see his posting), where his students went out and visited an IT company to talk to company employees to find out exactly what its employees us

Hello everyone,

I've just posted a longish response to Jorgelina from Argentina about TBA and Young Learners

Hi everyone - I've enjoyed reading your comments at the end of my biography and look forward to getting more comments and queries

Martin Peacock from the British Council carried out a video interview with me about my teaching career and views on ELT issues. You can download a transcript of the interview below.

I have been in the ELT profession most of my working life. I have always loved learning languages and travelling