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ELT Journal 1993 47(4):292-304; doi:10.1093/elt/47.4.292
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Language awareness: a missing link in language teacher education?

Tony Wright and Rod Bolitho

Tony Wright and Rod Bolitho work as teacher trainers and trainer-trainers in the International Education Centre at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK. They work on the BPhil/MEd TTELT, ELT and TESP programmes, as well as on project-related short courses for teachers and trainers in Plymouth and overseas. In addition to their work in Language Awareness they share an active interest in the value of process in teacher education and trainer training. Tony is currently developing courses which integrate classroom investigation into teacher education. He is the author of Roles of Teachersand Learners (OUP), and fhas contributed articles to a number of collections, including Second Language Teacher Education (CUP). Rod is co-author of Discover English (Heinemann) and co-editor of Currents of Change in ELT (OUP), and is currently working on another collection of Language Awareness activities.

This paper examines the position, nature, and scope of Language Awareness (LA) work in English language teacher education courses. By means of a sequence of LA activities, we attempt to identify the essential features of such activities for teachers and trainee teachers, so providing an interim framework for materials writing in this area, and illustrating the main methodological principles which underly LA activities. It is our contention that LA provides an important link between teachers' knowledge of language and their practices in teaching language.


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