The Experience of Language Teaching
2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/elt/ccm013
ISSN1477-4526
Autores Tópico(s)Second Language Learning and Teaching
ResumoIn her introduction, Rose Senior promises a book for all readers; for researchers, academics, teachers, teacher trainers, and trainees. To achieve this would be no small feat, and it is probably inevitable the book won't meet all the needs of all of the people, all of the time, but there certainly is something for everyone here; and it was the winner of the Ben Warren-International House Trust Prize for 2006. The book is an engaging narrative, albeit a complex one, about the experience of language teaching, using the voices and experiences of hundreds of language teachers in the UK and Australia. There is a real power in listening to others tell their stories and the honesty of those stories is often moving, sometimes inspiring, and almost always instructional. The material for the book comes from Senior's own research conducted over a twelve-year period, a systematic and thorough effort to answer the question: ‘What makes a good communicative language class?’ I don't think I'll be giving the plot away if I tell you that the answer was ‘a good class is a cohesive unit’, but you'll need to read the book to find out how ‘a cohesive unit’ is achieved and what it looks like in practice.
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