Models and Metaphors in Language Teacher Training [antikvár]

Introduction \Nho is this book for? • For any modern language teacher trainer, whether you have the title 'teacher trainer', have your own office, have special training and extra pay, whether you are called something else such as 'inspector', 'director of studies' or 'principal' or whether you are the sort of teacher that people turn to in the staffroom in moments of pre- and post-lesson panic. • For anyone planning or running a pre- or in-service workshop or course. • For groups of teachers wanting to share ideas in informal and less institutional settings. • For teachers and teacher trainees who have been through or are undergoing the process of training and who are interested in how it can be done. • For lecturers interested in getting away from a lecture-based approach to training. • For trainers in any field who are interested in the how of training as well as the what. What is the book about? The book is about the process of training language teachers. One particular process option is described in close practical detail in Part One, and in Part Two there is broader discussion of how we classify and define teacher training events, the parameters surrounding them, the matching of process options to parameters, and, finally, how we can evaluate any process experiments we might make. In simpler language. Part One is about loop input, and Part Two is about what's inside the trainer's head (mental schemata), what's outside the trainer's head (parameters), juggling the inside with the outside (making process choices), and what the experiments are worth (evaluation). How is the book organised? The book is divided into two parts. The first part introduces the idea of loop input gradually, so that by the end of Part One the reader will be able to plan, run, assess and adapt training sessions in this new way. This first