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The Dimensions of Experience

What is experience?Definitions of experience, even within the context of teaching, are many and various.However, definitions tend to differ in detail, with the fundamental concepts ofobservation and participation common to most. That in itself suggests that theaccumulation of experience depends...

April 6, 2023

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Reflections on Training up a Partially Sighted CELTA Tutor

Radwa Younis was born with Ritinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive eye disease that ultimately leads to blindness. Radwa is now 34, visually impaired, but has completed her BA, postgraduate diploma, Cambridge Delta and become a CELTA tutor. All of this has...

April 6, 2021

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Author: Steve Darn

The Dimensions of Experience

Reflections on Training up a Partially Sighted CELTA Tutor

Journal Writing: A Study of Change