February 2021 - Steve Darn

Journal Writing: A Study of Change

(research by Bahar Ulusoğlu-Darn) Abstract There is a strong prejudice against writing lessons among Turkish students and teachers, both at high school and university levels. This paper describes the problems that students and teachers have in undergraduate writing classes and...

February 10, 2021

TTD

Express Teaching

(with Gülfem Aslan) AbstractMany teachers working in proficiency orientated institutions, whether they work in national, local teaching contexts or global ones, find themselves confronted with a heavily loaded curriculum, often split into language and separate skills, and a very limited...

February 10, 2021

TTD

Thinking Outside The Teacher’s Box

IntroductionThe term ‘thinking outside the box’ is generally associated with innovation and problem solving in business and management. Often, the phrase is used by higher-level management when it is felt that the quality of solutions or ideas is below standard...

February 10, 2021

TTD

The Provision of Teacher Development in an Expanding University

A Case Study from Turkey ContextThere is an ever-growing body of literature concerning the need for teacher development, teacher training and teacher education in English language teaching. Possibly because ELT is primarily a private sector enterprise, or possibly because teaching...

February 10, 2021

TTD

Teacher Isolation

‘He’s a real nowhere mansitting in his nowhere landmaking all his nowhere plans for nobodydoesn’t have a point of viewknows not where he’s going toisn’t he a bit like you and me?’(Lennon & McCartney) Jeremy, if you are old enough...

February 10, 2021

TTD

What’s Happening in Your Department?

Whether you are a head of department, a senior teacher, or in your first year of teaching, ask yourself the question ‘is anything changing in my department, in my classroom, in my teaching?’ If the answer to this question is ‘No, not...

February 10, 2021

TTD

Who Are You? A Mingle Activity for Trainer Trainers

Like many who are involved in training trainers, I also train and help to develop teachers and, rightly, teach learners of English in a standard classroom setting. Those of us who teach at three levels, sometimes all on the same...

February 10, 2021

TTD

Beyond Training: Teaching

For my sins, I teach, teach teachers and teach teachers who teach teachers. I do this at the Izmir University of Economics, on the Aegean coast of Turkey, where there aren’t many trainers or trainer-trainers around. I suppose I have...

February 10, 2021

CLIL

CLIL: Implementing a CLIL Approach - A Change of Emphasis

BackgroundStudents at English-medium institutions require ongoing language support, and it makes sense for this support to be given while they are studying their chosen subject rather than separately. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) offers an approach which increases language...

February 10, 2021

CLIL

CLIL: News from Turkey

It is well over a year since the first CLIL materials from Turkey were posted on the FACT Website http://www.factworld.info/turkey/miniskirt/index.htm and the Turkish flag was added to the FACTWorld banner. These materials, and subsequent additions, originated from a small CLIL enclave in...

February 10, 2021

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Month: February 2021

Journal Writing: A Study of Change

Express Teaching

Thinking Outside The Teacher’s Box

The Provision of Teacher Development in an Expanding University

Teacher Isolation

What’s Happening in Your Department?

Who Are You? A Mingle Activity for Trainer Trainers

Beyond Training: Teaching

CLIL: Implementing a CLIL Approach - A Change of Emphasis

CLIL: News from Turkey

The Dimensions of Experience

Reflections on Training up a Partially Sighted CELTA Tutor

Journal Writing: A Study of Change