Spring/March 2010 - Vol 24 No 1
now available!
Welcome to Volume 24, Number 1 the 'Spring' 2010 issue of the Teacher Trainer journal. Spring from the point of view of the UK of course, as this is where we are based. Although as I write this, it feels far from Springy with snow on the ground and a chill North East wind! You may be in Autumn as you read this in your part of the world! Whatever season you are enjoying or dealing with, I'd like to tell you about the latest issue.
I hope you enjoy this very full issue packed with articles. First there is an absolutely classic text on ‘being helpful’ (see page 2). Using letters at the start and end of training courses features on page 4. Corpus matters are on page 7. If you are interested in CLIL, see page 12. We have an interview with someone intensely interested in images and up to date technology (see page 16) We have two articles from China in this issue (see pages 19 and 22) as well as news (page 11 and 24), a lively open letter in response to an earlier article (page18), and, as usual, lots on books and articles of interest to trainers (pages 17 and 25).
The following established series are back: It’s a Wired World, Training around the World, Interview, News in our Field, Article Watch and Publications Received.
Authors this time include... Jack. R. Gibb, Sarah Conway, John Eldridge, Nilgun Hancioglu and Steven Neufeld, Briony Beaven, Pam Aboshiha, James Keddie, Jeremy Harmer, Keith O’Hare, Tao Rui and Tasha Bleistein.
With all these goodies packed into the current issue I hope you will feel like subscribing which you can also do online!
Happy reading! And keep sending in your articles, comments and adverts!
Tessa Woodward
Editor
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news
Opening plenary IATEFL conference
by Tessa Woodward
Tessa Woodward, the editor of The Teacher Trainer journal, is giving the opening plenary at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, UK in April, 2010. The topic will be "The professional life cycles of teachers".
Tessa was also the October 2009 guest writer for the BBC Teaching English web site. And the subject was all about being a teacher trainer! You can still see her articles on the 'Guest Writer' section of:
www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/tessa-woodward.
Digital version Teacher Trainer Journal
In response to reader and subscriber enquiries, we have been working for some time on getting an affordable, secure, digital version of the Teacher Trainer journal launched from this web site as of now, Volume 24 No 1.
We have now found a local company who will help us to provide you with a ‘flip page’ digital version. (This means that the digital version looks like a real magazine with pages turning!) Of course, you don’t have to have it! You can still subscribe just to the paper version if you wish. But if you would like to have the digital version as well, you will be able to subscribe to both at the same time very soon. Please see the how to subscribe and subscribe online pages for details of the offer.
In order to keep our copyright safe you will naturally not be able to edit the pages, put them onto a CD Rom or forward them to someone else. But you will be able to read them online and print them off!
Short articles!
When we are laying out a new issue of the Teacher Trainer journal, we often have a little space left over. We keep that for extra adverts that come in. These little spaces are also perfect for short articles! So, if you have a really good idea that you want to share with fellow professionals, and it is very short, don’t be put off. Send it in! It may well help us with our layout. It may also mean that your work gets printed quicker than usual too!
By ‘short’ I mean anything under 1,000 words.
Looking forward to receiving your ‘shorties’!
25th Anniversary
We are beginning to dream up exciting ideas for a 25th anniversary celebration in the summer of 2011. A long way ahead but again things are definitely moving!
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