Spring/March 2008 - Vol 22 No 1
now available!
Welcome to Volume 22, Number 1 the 'Spring' 2008 issue of the Teacher Trainer journal. Spring from the point of view of the UK of course as this is where we are based. You may be moving towards Autumn as you read this in your part of the world! Whatever season you are enjoying, I'd like to tell you about the latest issue.
If you ever want to run a session for teachers on Drama, have a look at our Practical Training Session column (see p. 2). It carries the second of a two-part, almost instant, plan for the less-experienced teacher trainer or workshop leader. There are interesting articles on synchronous coaching (see p 5), creative ways of setting up pair and group work (see p 9) and of giving final plenaries (see p 20), glimpses of the training world in China (see p 12), a conversation with an electrician trainer and much much more! All our new series – News in Our Field, It’s a Wired World, Article Watch – are back this time too, as is our established series Publications Received.
Authors this time include...Andy Caswell, Susan Barduhn, Ralph Hooreman et al, Nicky Hockly, Chun Mei Yan, Elena Pithis, Mario Rinvolucri, Daniel Monaghan and the fabulous “Trento Group”!.
With all these goodies packed into the current issue I hope you will feel like subscribing which you can now do online!
All good wishes!
Tessa Woodward, Editor
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Latest Back Article:
"Using substitution tables for language analysis with pre-service native English speaking trainees"
Our stock of Golden Oldie articles is really getting quite large now! This time we add “Using substitution tables for language analysis with pre-service native English speaking trainees" by Tessa Woodward. This article was originally published on page 28 of Volume 4, Number 3, Autumn 1990!
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news
Lots!
1. First of all, please see our ‘Call for articles!’ We would like you to send some in now that our backlog has been successfully coped with via the print journal and this web site.
2. I am very happy to announce that you can now subscribe online. Please click on the ‘Subscribe online’ button and follow the links!
3. We have added a new back article to our archive of golden oldies. Please see the message above and the archive section.
4. We have started a new section called TTTJ Plus for articles which are brand new and have never appeared in the print journal.
5. We are currently asking subscribers to help us to update the useful bibliography on this web site. When The Teacher Trainer started in 1986 there were literally only a handful of professionally related books to help us modern language teacher trainers with our work. These days there are many, many more. We all have our favourites of course. The list of books on this site was contributed, a few years back, by Dr Ian McGrath, Associate Professor of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Recently some new books and article collections have appeared which could be useful to trainers, mentors and teacher educators. If you know of a useful book, please do get in touch with all the bibliographical details and we will add it to our updated list next time.
Thank you!
