From Experience to Knowledge in ELT

From Experience to Knowledge in ELT
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Strategies and ideas to help you develop your personal teaching style. A guide to help teachers of English to develop teaching skills through drawing on practical classroom experience.

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To Karolina, as she makes her own way.

To Enzo, per tutti.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Photos reproduced with kind permission from: Agence France Presse 145 (traffic/Dominic Burke); Alamy 46 (mobile phone/D. Hurst); Corbis 144 (bristlecone pine/D.S. Robins), Cyclepods Ltd 118 (cycle stand); Getty Images 145 (old women/Z. Kulunzny), 151 (man with laptop/Bilderlounge), 58 (man at reception); Getty Images/Foodpix 95 (cooked prawns/Burke/Triolo Productions); Oxford University Press 145 (the OED image is reprinted by permission of the Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press); Powerstock Superstock 144 (disaster); Roberstock.com 145 (plane/L. Smith); Jodi Waxman/OUP 95 (student visitor greeted), 95 (student visitor in bedroom).

Illustrations in extracts by: Stephan Conlin 58 (town plan); Phil Disley 148 (distracted driver), 110 (‘Welcome to Folkestone’); Martha Gavin 120 (noisy party neighbours); Harry Venning 94 (‘I look just like my father’). All other illustrations by Chris Pavely.

‘Popular opinions about language learning and teaching’ on page 7 reproduced with kind permission from Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada.

‘Weather Report’ chant on page 25 reproduced with kind permission from Carolyn Graham.

Before it took its own direction, this book had started life as a revision and updating of Essentials of English Language Teaching. It has come a long way since then, but an overall attitude and framework, along with some of the basic content, has survived. Plus ça change …

Our sincere thanks to Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton for her dedicated collegiality and her comments on an earlier draft of this book.

INTRODUCTION

Who is this book for?

This book is for people who:

• are keen to teach and eager to learn

• realize that their own previous and continuing experience plays an important role in what they learn and how they teach



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