Learner Development, Teacher Responsibility  

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Bird, Kathy

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 31 no. 4 (Okt. 1993), page 26-29.
Topik: LEARNER TRAINING; learner; development; teacher; responsibility
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Now, we are told, there are five skills : reading, writing, speaking, listening, and learner development. The enthusiasts latch onto the new buzzword, buy the nice new books, and practically make it a subject per se, while those less enamoured groan at what they consider to be yet another subject area they will be expected to learn about and deal with. Learner development arrived much later on the EFL scene than in other areas of education (Manpower Services were instrumental in pushing it to the forefront of education in Britain in the early eighties), and it has to be said that good teachers have always encouraged learners to think for themselves and take control of their own learning-they just didn’t have a term for it. Learner development is not simply concerned with telling students to read more, use their dictionaries, and do their homework ; and it is not, and should not be treated as, a skill. It is far more subtle than many of the books written about it would have us believe. Nonetheless, if you are lucky enough to have a period at the start of the course you can use as an induction period, then an awareness - raising package of learner - development activities is ideal, both for the learner and the teacher. But what is more important is the continuous nurturing of self - awareness and self - development in the learners. This should be the active responsibility of the teacher. There are many facets of learner development, but two in particular should be given a great deal of thought : (a) establishing aims and monitoring progress, and (b) integrating learner development into the existing course.

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