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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 426 623 FL 025 680 AUTHOR Woodward, Tessa, Ed. TITLE The Teacher Trainer, A Practical Journal Mainly for Modern Language Teacher Trainers, 1996. ISSN ISSN-0951-7626 PUB DATE 1996-00-00 NOTE 109p.; For volumes 3-12 (1989-1998), see ED 335 964, ED 335 954, ED 341 256, ED 356 642, ED 404 844, ED 376 730, ED 388 111, FL 025 680, FL 025 681, and FL 025 682, respectively. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Teacher Trainer; v10 n1-3 Spr-Aut 1996 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Classroom Environment; Classroom Techniques; Dialog Journals; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Immigrants; Inservice Teacher Education; *Language Teachers; Lesson Plans; Meetings; Metaphors; Multiple Intelligences; Preservice Teacher Education; Scheduling; Second Language Instruction; *Second Languages; Sex Differences; *Teacher Education; *Teacher Education Curriculum; Teacher Student Relationship; Vocational Adjustment IDENTIFIERS China; French People; India; United Kingdom ABSTRACT The three issues of the journal on second language teacher education include these articles: "We Need More and Different Flags" (Agnes Martin); "Dealing with Timetabling on Second Language Teacher Training Courses" (Craig Thaine); "Interview with Jill Florent"; "Haiku Idea" (Tim Hahn); "The Hidden History of a Lesson or Who Trained Me?" (Mario Rinvolucri); "Language Matters" (David Crystal); "Micro-Planning: A New Technique in In-Service Training" (Mihaela Tilinca); "Using Unseen Observations for and IST Development Programme" (Phil Quirke); "Breaking Down Barriers: The Adjustment of Immigrant Teachers to New Educational Frameworks" (Ephraim Weintroub); "The Post-PPP Debate: An Alternative Model?" (Clive Lovelock); "Suitcases, a Training Idea" (Rod Bolitho); "On 'Control' in Second Language Teaching Classrooms" (Zuo Biao) ;"Who Trains the Trainers? School-Based Mentorship and the Future of Teacher Training"(J. R. A. Williams); "Indian Problems and Indian Solutions" (M. N. K. Bose); "Meet a Colleague" (Margaret Szesztay); "Language Matters 'Sleaze'" (John Ayto); "The Use of Metaphor in Post Lesson Feedback" (Simon Marshall); "Trainee Voices...One Way of Hearing Them" (Tessa Woodward); "'Were You Wanting To Play?' A Reply to Peter Grundy" (Tony Penston); "A Human Rights Approach to Teacher Training"(F. Gomes de Matos); "'The Look': Observations on Observation" (Tom Farrel); "'Double TP' The Value of Teacher Trainees Repeating Their Practice Lessons" (David Bell); "Micro-Teaching Feedback Styles--An Investigation of Trainee Preference" (Jill Cadorath); "'ARC': Does It Have Restricted Use?" (Scott Thornbury); "Professional Language-Is It Useful or Is It a Restriction Close to Censorship?" (Tessa Woodward); "Career Pathways" (Rod Bolitho); "The Attitudes of French National son a UK PGCE Course" (Beatrice Davies); and "Train Ourselves First?" (Wu Xin) .Notes on publications and professional activities are also included in each issue. (MSE) INN, OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT and Improvement U SEducational Research Office ot INFORMATION EOICATI0N ALRESOURCES CENTER (ERIC)reproduced as has been This documentthe person ororganization received from originating it been madeto ' changes have O Minor quality improvereproducbon stater.'itriis Points oh viewor opinions represent not necessarily document doposition orpolicy . official OERI . PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND : DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY : , TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES : INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 1 I. I BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 A D IEW E LT A Course in Language Teaching Practice and theory Penny Ur This important new course provides a comprehensive basic introduction to teaching languages, for use in pre-service or early experience settings. It can be used by groups of teachers working with a trainer or as a self-study resource. 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CAMB RID GE UNIVERSITY PRESS For further information, please contact: Cambridge Universiry Press the professional choice ELT Marketing The Edinburgh Building Shaftesbury Road Cambridge CB2 2.RU BEST COPY AVAILABLE 3 TEL: (01223) 325997 FAX: (01223) 325984 The acher Trainer Editorial 2 Published three times a year Editor: Tessa Woodward We need more and different flags, A Pilgrim's publication with complete editorial Jean Riidiger 3 independence. Address: The Teacher Trainer, Pilgrims House, Orchard 5 Street, Canterbury, Kent CT2 SAP, England. Subscriptions Information Tel: (01227) 762111 from within UK. Printed: The University of Kent Printing Unit, Conference Report 6 Canterbury, Kent, England. For all enquiries concerning subscriptions, advertising Dealing with timetabling on second and contributions, please contact the Editor. language teacher training courses, Views expressed in the articles are not necessarily those of the Editor. Craig Thaine 7 Interview with Jill Florent 9 ABOUT "THE TEACHER TRAINER" "The Teacher Trainer" is a journal especially for Haiku idea, Tim Hahn 11 those interested in modern language teacher training. Whether you are a teacher who tends The hidden history of a lesson or who to be asked questions by others in a staffroom, trained me? Mario Rinvolucri 12 or a Director of Studies with a room of your own, whether you are a course tutor on an Language matters, David Crystal 15 exam course, or an inspector going out to schools, this journal is for you. Our aims are to Process options provide a forum for ideas, information and Micro-planning: A new technique in news, to put trainers in touch with each other and to give those involved in teacher training a in-service training, Mihaela Tilinca 17 feeling of how trainers in other fields operate as well as building up a pool of experience within Observation and feedback modern language teacher training. Using unseen observations for an 1ST development programme, Phil Quirke 18 The journal comes out three times a year and makes use of a variety of formats e.g. article, Breaking down barriers: The adjustment of letter, comment, quotation, cartoon, interview, spoof, haiku ideas. If the idea is good, we'll print immigrant teachers to new educational it whatever voice you choose to express it in. frameworks, Ephraim Weintroub 20 Publications received 22,24 THE TEACHER TRAINER, Vol.10, No.1 SPRING 1996 Page 1 a Editorial I can hardly believe that we are now in our tenth year! Even more amazing is that we still have with us some of the same advertisers, contributors and subscribers who supported the journal when it started as a rather scrappy newsletter in 1986. Thanks to all of you for your stamina and support! Famous names? Yes, we have two this issue. David Crystal has kindly agreed to contribute to our new column Language Matters in each volume. His piece this time is about helping language teachers to help language students with the increasing variation and change in English. Mario Rinvolucri goes digging, in an archaeological fashion, into one of his own lessons to find out where the elements of his lesson come from. He mentions students, colleagues, books and writing as past influences and mentors. Absolute newcomers? But of course, they are here too! Jean RUdiger writes for us for the first time about the problems that women teachers can have in classes of young men, especially in rather patriarchal societies. She has real, practical ideas for those training teachers to go into this uncomfortable setting. Craig Thaine is also joining us as a first time contributor. He is concerned to help pre-service trainees get some practice in time-tabling series of lessons as well as just planning individual ones. Some of our "old favourite" series are back in this issue: Interview. We continue to round out the journal with different TESOL viewpoints and voices by encouraging Jill Florent, Heinemann's methodology publisher, to talk about her job and her work on Heinemann's new book series for teachers. Process options. Mihaela Tilinca, one of our able book reviewers, this time shares a practical idea for in-service training. It is not micro-teaching but micro-planning an unthreatening way of ensuring the transfer of ideas from the training room to the classroom. Conference report. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Edinburgh Symposium on trainer training in November of last year. I've written a brief report and hope to have some contributions from fellow participants in the next issue. Observation and feedback. Since going into teachers' classes often causes disruption, fear and unnaturalness, why not try talking to teachers about what they've done rather than insisting on watching them do it? Phil Quirke develops this idea of "unseen observation" in this issue. Apart from squeezing in a quick "Haiku-idea" from Tim Hahn, I've also included a piece by Ephraim Weintroub on re-training Soviet teachers in Israel. Every time I bump into Ephraim at conferences and ask him what he's up to, he talks with eloquent passion about his "Russian teachers". So I asked him to explain why he is so entranced and involved with them. He does so in this issue. Other news is that we have our first job advert in this issue. Please use our pages to advertise anything trainer-related. We can always send you price and design information on request. I really hope you enjoy this issue and will continue to support this unique journal with comments, contributions and subscriptions and by telling your professional contacts that it exists. Have a very good 1996! All good wishes Tessa Woodward, Editor.