Feb 07 2010
1) Passionate as I am about classrooms, I don’t know how good they are for language learning. Learning is essentially a private matter, although in classrooms all learning is meditated through the social context of the classroom. It may be that the social factors are so strong that the things we would like to happen [...]
Feb 03 2010
One of the inspirations for this blog is an article written in 1985 by Mike Breen entitled ” The Social Context for Language Learning – A neglected situation”. It first appeared here: Breen, M. (1985b). The social context for language learning – a neglected situation? Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 7, 135-158. In it [...]
Jan 29 2010
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 [...]
