Paul Davis

Articles

1999. What is Teacher Development? HLT Magazine. (source)

1999. Jokes. HLT Magazine. Paul Davis, Mario Rinvolucri, Barbara Garside. (source)

1999. Ways of Doing (Students Explore their Everyday and Classroom Processes.) HLT Magazine. (source)

2002. Paul Davis, Mario Rinvolucri. Chapter 1 from ‘The Confidence Book’. HLT Magazine. (source)

2003. Paul Davis, Hanna Kryszewska. Chunking for Beginners (Lexical Approach) - Some Recipes. HLT Magazine. (source)

2006. Mario Rinvolucri. Exercises That Help to Build Up Confidence During Exam Time. HLT Magazine. (source)

2009. This is an Exercise I learnt from Caleb Gattegno… HLT Magazine. (source)

2010. Mario’s Lost Exercise. HLT Magazine. (source)

2010. An Old Exercise. HLT Magazine. (source)

2012. Paul Davis, Hanna Kryszewska. A Taste of a New Book “The Company Words Keep”. HLT Magazine. (source)

2013. Avoiding Clichés Like the Plague (Ideas from the Corpora). HLT Magazine. (source)

2013. Paul Davis, Hanna Kryszewska. The Company Words Keep. HLT Magazine. (source)

2015. Paul Davis, Hanna Kryszewska. N-grams for Language Classes. HLT Magazine. (source)

2015. Grammar: Deixis - Pointing This Way and That. (source)

2015. Paul Davis, Hanna Kryszewska. Corpus Fun and Games with Sporcle. HLT Magazine. (source)

Paul Davis

Recommended books

Place in HLT

Paul Davis had a very keen interest in the way in which language permeates human existence and lies at the root of important social issues. His ideas, which permeated his teacher training courses, international workshops and publications, drew on applied linguistics, but equally on his experience of practical experimentation.

The books he wrote, and the content of Paul’s training sessions, made ripples across the ELT community, inspiring many responses and further development of his ideas. Paul was a natural rebel who constantly provoked teachers into re-thinking their routines and justifying their choices. He was a unique, unconventional trainer, inviting teachers to think for themselves and trust their own sense of direction. He will surely be remembered by one non-conformist feature: distributing handouts by throwing them in the air. ‘Catch them if you can…’ (no matter how many eyebrows this raised).

On a Personal Note

Paul was an incorrigible nonconformist who was passionate about issues he considered important like social inequality or…cycling. He was involved in teachers’ trade unions and protecting those who needed help. There was a strong left-wing voice within him which was heard on many occasions. Trained as a historian, he could become vociferous when discussing politics or the news.

At the same time, he was a faithful friend, a very generous person, a caring colleague and a thoughtful and sensitive Director of Studies. He was also a wonderful cook, who ‘cooked with wine and sometimes he even added it to the food ‘.

— (His close friends and colleagues remember him affectionately in HLT Magazine and on the C Group website.)

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