Who: Lina Gordyshevskaya, an EFL teacher in Japan; TEFL, CELTA, DELTA Module 1 (Merit, 2018). Her “So you wanna do Delta Module 3” is also recommended on Sandy Millin’s DELTA links page.
What: Reflective notes, lesson plans, DELTA prep; strong on affect (anxiety, engagement) and pronunciation/ELF.
Stance: Learner-centred and affect-aware; intelligibility over accent; assessment should serve learners.
Processed notes
- Affective reading - add personal and emotional engagement to a text
- DELTA Module 1 - a study plan and task-timing strategy
- Intelligibility as the goal, accent as the learner’s informed choice
- Reduce speaking anxiety with anonymous dialogical feedback
- Visualise sentence stress with audiograms
Next to process
- “So you wanna do Delta Module 3” (linked from DELTA resource map - module by module links)
- Reflecting on teaching groups online · To assess or not to assess