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roninfromde@yahoo.com - 07 Feb 2005 18:57 GMT

Has anyone here ever seen research on teachers becoming students to
help their reflective teaching? In other words, an ESL teacher taking a
language class specifically as research to improve their own teaching?
I am having trouble finding any literature on this kind of thing.

Thank you in advance if you can point out some links for me to research
(or names or titles or any info at all).

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john - 07 Feb 2005 22:01 GMT

> Has anyone here ever seen research on teachers becoming students to
> help their reflective teaching? In other words, an ESL teacher taking a
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> Thank you in advance if you can point out some links for me to research
> (or names or titles or any info at all).

Can't help with published references but Direct Method TESOL teacher
training usually includes the trainees learning another language to get
the feel of being a student. In my own training course I was taught
some Japanese, Russian and Chinese. When training my own teachers I
also included trial lessons in a language they didn't know.
Good luck with your research, John.

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Jim Walsh - 22 Apr 2008 14:08 GMT

>> Has anyone here ever seen research on teachers becoming students to
>> help their reflective teaching? In other words, an ESL teacher taking a
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> also included trial lessons in a language they didn't know.
> Good luck with your research, John.

I do this too, partly because studying Chinese gave me insight into what not
to do with my English students.

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Django Cat - 08 Feb 2005 19:32 GMT

>Has anyone here ever seen research on teachers becoming students to
>help their reflective teaching? In other words, an ESL teacher taking a
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>Thank you in advance if you can point out some links for me to research
>(or names or titles or any info at all).

Schmidt and Frota give the classic account of an SLA Researcher
keeping a diary as she's learning Portuguese:-

Schmidt and Frota in Talking to Learn: Conversation in SLA ed R Day
1986.

I joined a direct method beginners Italian class, in Italy, two years
ago. The object was to learn Italian, but it was still interesting
pedagogically.

DC

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Ronin - 09 Feb 2005 04:03 GMT

Ooh, thanks, that might help.

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Reflective Teaching