About
Hi!
My name is Olya Sergeeva. I’m an English language teacher and a teacher trainer based in St. Petersburg, Russia. I teach IT people in-company, where I also run in-service professional development courses for fellow language trainers. I’m also a CELTA trainer (LT-Pro) and a local Delta tutor with NILE.
My main interests include:
- teaching authentic listening (I’m the creator of TubeQuizard.com, a listening service that created listening decoding quizzes based on YouTube videos)
- learner autonomy
- English for IT professionals
- spoken discourse, spoken grammar and the way interpersonal communication is realized through language
- language acquisition, and in particular explicit/implicit knowledge and what this means in terms of classroom methodology
- using technology
- teacher training
This blog started out after I finished Delta Modules 1 and 2, as the latter left me with more questions than answers. So in this blog I’ve been looking for the answers – experimenting (both as a teacher and as a learner of German), writing about ideas that I’ve tried out that might or might not have worked.
Looking forward to hearing from you. 🙂 Olya
Also, feel free to connect on other networks:
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email: olyaelt at gmail
Olya Sergeeva's ELT blog 
hi Olga! i completely share your “slightly crazy” ideas about language learning and teaching! i myself always try to keep ‘upgraded” with all different kinds of strategies I can apply at my lessons!
looking forward to seeing you on “shaping the way we teach english” course!)
Hi Olga, I was on your site a few months back and I found a photo you’d posted of a tense review class where you had the board full of all the tenses, their uses and examples but now I can’t find it. I want to do something similar, could you point me in the right directions? Thanks a lot, your blog is a great help.
Hi Robbio,
Nice to hear from you!
Here’s the link to the post you’re talking about: https://eltgeek.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/helping-learners-to-acquire-language-through-input/ I was using ideas and ‘one-word descriptions’ of tenses based on a few pages in two books. The first one was ‘The English Verb’ by Michael Lewis (http://www.amazon.com/The-English-Verb-Exploration-Structure/dp/090671740X) and the second one, ‘Rules, Patterns and Words’ by Dave Willis (http://books.google.ru/books?id=3F8IMy5T8xMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). If you want me to, I can look up page numbers, so that you don’t waste googlebooks allowance and go straight to the relevant pages..
Best,
Olya
Hi Olga, sorry for bombarding you with messages! I tried out some of your listening techniques with an advanced classes with mixed results, and had some further questions regarding your approach. Do you think yo might have time for a quick skype or messenger chat about your methods in more detail? Would love to share some ideas and see what you think.
Hi, yes, absolutely! Could you add me on skype (olga_sergeeva@epam.com)? I’ll be online in a few hours, and I’d love to have a chat. Thanks a lot for your feedback and your ideas (I’m going to use some of your ideas that your described in the comments with my low level students).
Olya sorry!
Thank you for sharing your ELT experience, so valuable!