Participants may create an email list to continue the discussion beyond this session. Topics include language proficiency standards, the applicability of current language teaching approaches to EFL contexts, and implications for teacher education. Four innovative research projects explore the complex nature of teacher learning in L2 teacher education programs in diverse contexts. Every classroom can be said to have both push and pull. The differences between classrooms are in the extent of these interactions.
Classrooms featuring language pull are usually more useful and stimulating.
The presenter explores how different types of refocusing on the same literary text contributes to language learning. Room 543 Many children, upon entering school, must learn the language of instruction. Thus, they develop a background of language learning in a school context. The presenter discusses a case study of language learning in a Senegalese first grade and elucidates techniques that help or hinder later EFL instruction. This paper describes the use of ethnography as a teaching tool for developing teacher awareness of learner acculturation and language acquisition processes.