New routes to fluency: phrasebooks, coursebooks and teaching Spoken English.
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Dear Colleagues,
IATEFL Poland and Hugh Dellar, teacher, trainer, and materials writer,
have the pleasure to invite you to
the webinar which will take place on Wednesday, 27th of May 2026, from 20.30 to 21.30 CEST.
This webinar is titled:
” New routes to fluency: phrasebooks, coursebooks and teaching Spoken English.”
Summary:
Fluency in spoken English is often understood as grammatical accuracy or vocabulary range, yet real-world communication depends just as much on formulaic language, chunks, and interactional patterns. This talk explores new routes to developing fluency through the use of phrasebooks, coursebooks, and focused teaching of Spoken English. It looks at how learners can move beyond individual words and rules to acquire ready-made language for real communicative situations, and how teachers can exploit existing materials more effectively to support this process. Practical examples and classroom implications will be discussed, with a focus on helping learners sound more natural, confident, and fluent in everyday speech.
Hugh Dellar
Hugh Dellar is a London-based teacher and teacher trainer
with over twenty-five years’ experience in the field.
He has taught all ages and levels, both in the UK and also in Indonesia, where he lived for four years. He worked for University of Westminster for 18 years but is now co-runs the online language school and training company www.lexicallab.com. He has co-authored two five-level General English series, Outcomes and Innovations, both published by National Geographic Learning, as well as one level of the high-school series Perspectives. His first methodology book, Teaching Lexically, came out via Delta Publishing in 2016. Most recently, he has worked on two levels of the new Pearson General English series, Roadmap.
Hugh has given teacher training and development sessions in over twenty countries including Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Russia, Italy, Japan and Thailand. He has spoken on such wide-ranging topics as the nature of English as a Lingua Franca, the uses and abuses of corpora, approaches to teaching grammar and vocabulary, as well as many others.
