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Being there? Comparing synchronous and recorded online instruction for language teachers
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Gakonga, Joanne (2013) Being there? Comparing synchronous and recorded online instruction for language teachers. In: Edge, Julian and Mann, Steve J., (eds.) Innovations in pre-service education and training for English language teachers. Innovations . London: British Council, pp. 231-243. ISBN 9780863557026
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Abstract
When we invited proposals for inclusion in this collection of papers on the pre-service education and training of English language teachers (henceforth PRESETT), we received 141 responses from 32 different countries. The selection process was very difficult. Some criteria, however, were clear from the outset. First, to count as an innovation, we needed reports on action that had actually been taken. A new idea is not an innovation. Innovation demands concentration on process; it demands that we pay as much attention to how we teach or train as
to which topics get covered along the way, or the tools that we employ. We asked contributors to make clear the steps and detail of introduction, implementation and evaluation of their efforts, because it is the realisation of an idea in action that constitutes genuine innovation. Second, whether action counts as innvoation depends on where and when that action is taken. We have hyphenated new-in-context in the title of this chapter in order to emphasise the importance of setting, of time and place, of norms and expectations.
In a situation where learning is seen as the memorisation of facts to be tested by an end-of-year examination, for example, the introduction of formative assessment would be seen as an innovation. Conversely, in a setting where learning modules and criterion-referenced, continuous assessment are the norm, the introduction of assessment by end-of-year written examinations of formal knowledge would be an innovation. Samb’s chapter (Chapter 2) in this collection gives us insight into the
former type of innovation in Senegal. At the time of writing, the British government seems to be moving in the opposite direction in England (BBC 2012).
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Series Name: | Innovations | ||||
Publisher: | British Council | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9780863557026 | ||||
Book Title: | Innovations in pre-service education and training for English language teachers | ||||
Editor: | Edge, Julian and Mann, Steve J. | ||||
Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 243 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 231-243 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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