I am a Blogger at IATEFL, Birmingham 2016

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DAY 1

You can watch the video here: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/interview/interview-herbert-puchta

What caught my eye about this Interview is "using evidence of neuro-biology" in the teens ESL classroom.

For myself I wrote these Interview key words:

developing teenage students' language response, responsibility, personality;personilized and challenging study materials; emotion-driven not logics-driven; critical-thinking, values, self-esteem.

I share Herbert's view that there are 2 major psychological issues concerning teens: no match btw emotions and logics; and high or low self-esteem. High self-esteem can lead to the teen's feeling superior to his peers and low esteem leads to agression.

So, developing tasks the teacher should work carefully on them and make them satisfy major demands: 
- they should be Critical Thinking developing,
- values understanding development and
- self-esteem development.

So, the teaching materials should be challenging and related-to-the-world for the teens, but as every teen is individualeach task should be so worked through in the ESL class that it should touch to the quick every teen - using different questions knowing each teen's background etc

In fact, this approach will work well with students of any age because it is PERSONALIZED relative to their age and background.