Jan 29 2010

Learners are social beings who learn and develop best in a mutually supportive environment

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Last week I looked at the first of five propositions in Allwright and Hanks’s “The Developing Language Learner”.  These propositions are to do with how they would like learners to be treated by teachers.  The first one was about learners being unique individuals who learn and develop best in their own idiosyncratic ways. The second [...]

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Jan 16 2010

Quality of life in classrooms

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What is  quality exactly? And what is quality of life in the classroom? After working as a language assistant in a school in Berchtesgaden in Bavaria in 1975/6 I came back to Britain to go to university. My summer book reading was “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig which was basically [...]

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