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‘Dear Brown Eyes’: Experiential learning in a project-orientated approach
Graham Carter has a BA degree in Modern Languages ifrom London University and a PGCE from Bristol University. He taught EFL in Italy for four years before returning to teach French and Italian in state schools in England for four years. After teaching EFL for a further two years, he started working for the Bell School, Bath in 1981.
Howard Thomas is Director of Studies at the Bell School, Bath. After graduating in 1969 he worked as a modern languages teacher in Britain and later as an EFL teacher and teacher trainer in Germany. In 1978 he obtained an MSc degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Since then he has worked as a teacher trainer and administrator in EFL in Britain and abroad. He has contributed several articles to ELF journals (including a survey review of listening materials in ELT Journal 37/3:273–7), and has co-authored textbooks which focus on listening comprehension, video work, and the communicative classroom.
This is an account of how a group of students on an English course at the Bell School, Bath became teachers fora short while in local junior schools. It describes how the project came about, how the students were prepared for their task, and what the outcome was.'