Hugh Dellar

Biogram

Hugh Dellar is the co-founder of the online school and training company www.lexicallab.com. He has co-authored two five-level General English series, Outcomes and Innovations, published by National Geographic Learning, and his first methodology book, Teaching Lexically, came out in 2016. Most recently, he worked on Your Top 50 English Questions Answered, published by Wayzgoose Press.

Beyond the native speaker paradigm

Despite continuing native speakerism in EFL job markets, defining what native speaker English actually is – and isn’t – remains incredibly problematic. In this talk, I’ll be suggesting that ideas such as ‘British’ or ‘American’ English are simply constructs and that the reality is both more complicated and more liberating.  I’ll also explore some of the classroom implications of all this.

Spacing out! In praise of distributed grammar practice

Although it remains less studied than vocabulary acquisition, there's nevertheless a growing body of evidence to suggest that grammar is more solidly acquired if structures are encountered regularly over a longer period of time – rather than in one massed meeting. In this talk, we’ll consider the implications of this for everyday classroom practice and for materials design.