A weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Liam Printer talking all things education, language teaching, motivation and engagement. Episodes focus on linking research to practice as well as giving teachers zero-prep comprehensible input activities to boost motivation that can be implemented into classrooms immediately.
In 2022, The Motivated Classroom podcast was in the Top 5% most downloaded podcasts worldwide of all podcasts across all domains and sectors. To date it has had over half a million unique downloads and has a spotify following of over 5,000!

A podcast for language teachers and learners hosted by Dr. Liam Printer talking all things education, languages, motivation and engagement; linking current educational research to your classroom practice and providing a few ideas for some easy to implement, zero-prep, motivational strategies you can try out right away!
Join the conversation on social media using #MotivatedClassroom. I’d love to know what you think so please get in touch.
Full programme notes available on
www.liamprinter.com/podcast
Principle One of Six for a Motivated Year in the ‘Back to School’ series:
1. Aligning a CI approach to your curriculum
In this episode we lay the foundations for a motivated year in your language classroom by ensuring our curriculum aligns with a CI and comprehension-based approach in our practice. It is all well and good having loads of great CI strategies up your sleeve but for those of us who teach within a curriculum, we need to ensure our syllabus and scheme of work allows us to use these strategies and importantly, gives us time and space to implement them.
In this episode we will look at how to backwards plan, using narrative as a backbone for into each unit and how to assess whilst teaching with a CI approach.
Don’t miss the rest of the six principles which are on the way every Friday for the next five weeks:
2. The Acquisition-Motivation balance
3. The 5 minute block principle
4. Effective pairs to boost engagement
5. Creating a class yearbook
6. Running effective routines
Keep in touch and share widely!

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A podcast for language teachers and learners hosted by Dr. Liam Printer talking all things education, languages, motivation and engagement; linking current educational research to your classroom practice and providing a few ideas for some easy to implement, zero-prep, motivational strategies you can try out right away!
Join the conversation on social media using #MotivatedClassroom. I’d love to know what you think so please get in touch.
Full programme notes available on
www.liamprinter.com/podcast
Principle One of Six for a Motivated Year in the ‘Back to School’ series:
1. Aligning a CI approach to your curriculum
In this episode we lay the foundations for a motivated year in your language classroom by ensuring our curriculum aligns with a CI and comprehension-based approach in our practice. It is all well and good having loads of great CI strategies up your sleeve but for those of us who teach within a curriculum, we need to ensure our syllabus and scheme of work allows us to use these strategies and importantly, gives us time and space to implement them.
In this episode we will look at how to backwards plan, using narrative as a backbone for into each unit and how to assess whilst teaching with a CI approach.
Don’t miss the rest of the six principles which are on the way every Friday for the next five weeks:
2. The Acquisition-Motivation balance
3. The 5 minute block principle
4. Effective pairs to boost engagement
5. Creating a class yearbook
6. Running effective routines
Keep in touch and share widely!


A podcast for language teachers and learners hosted by Dr. Liam Printer talking all things education, languages, motivation and engagement; linking current educational research to your classroom practice and providing a few ideas for some easy to implement, zero-prep, motivational strategies you can try out right away!
Join the conversation on social media using #MotivatedClassroom. I’d love to know what you think so please get in touch.
Full programme notes available on
www.liamprinter.com/podcast
Principle One of Six for a Motivated Year in the ‘Back to School’ series:
1. Aligning a CI approach to your curriculum
In this episode we lay the foundations for a motivated year in your language classroom by ensuring our curriculum aligns with a CI and comprehension-based approach in our practice. It is all well and good having loads of great CI strategies up your sleeve but for those of us who teach within a curriculum, we need to ensure our syllabus and scheme of work allows us to use these strategies and importantly, gives us time and space to implement them.
In this episode we will look at how to backwards plan, using narrative as a backbone for into each unit and how to assess whilst teaching with a CI approach.
Don’t miss the rest of the six principles which are on the way every Friday for the next five weeks:
2. The Acquisition-Motivation balance
3. The 5 minute block principle
4. Effective pairs to boost engagement
5. Creating a class yearbook
6. Running effective routines
Keep in touch and share widely!


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