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
This third and final episode in the mini-series on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and theory. This one looks at Chomsky’s concept of Universal Grammar; the idea that we all possess an innate mechanism that allows us to decipher and encode language with ease.
In this episode I try to look at both sides of the research on this and also at where the common ground lies. There is, always, lots of valuable practical implications for teachers too!
Please let me know what you think!
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
This third and final episode in the mini-series on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and theory. This one looks at Chomsky’s concept of Universal Grammar; the idea that we all possess an innate mechanism that allows us to decipher and encode language with ease.
In this episode I try to look at both sides of the research on this and also at where the common ground lies. There is, always, lots of valuable practical implications for teachers too!
Please let me know what you think!
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
This third and final episode in the mini-series on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and theory. This one looks at Chomsky’s concept of Universal Grammar; the idea that we all possess an innate mechanism that allows us to decipher and encode language with ease.
In this episode I try to look at both sides of the research on this and also at where the common ground lies. There is, always, lots of valuable practical implications for teachers too!
Please let me know what you think!
Keep in touch and share widely!


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