The classroom experiences that many teaching assistants have had abroad often vary from those at an U.S. university. The structure and demands immediately placed upon teaching assistants can be stressful. This presentation examines how orientations can best prepare teaching assistants for the challenges they will face in the classroom. L2 teachers make in planning, teaching, and evaluating their work. Participants identify choices made by teachers and the beliefs about language and teaching that led them to act as they did.
Participants examine how they make decisions.
This presentation examines the responses of students in an intensive English program to a survey on the role of the teacher in the classroom. Discussion follows on how students might want to learn, challenging some popular language teaching views of what constitutes learner-centered teaching. Dialogue journals provide a safe introduction. Theory gains a human face, and ESL students gain a true audience for their writing that encourages language production. Current challenges, issues and solutions are explored.