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Team evaluation of language teaching and language courses
Teaches English for Academic Purposes and Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. He is particularly interested in the way students learn English in an academic setting, in individual learner differences, and in learner autonomy. His publications include Language, Learning and Success: Studying through English(Macmillan 1993).
Teaches Applied Linguistics and ESP at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently working on text in language teaching and on early stage writing. His most recent book is Doing Pragmatics (Edward Arnold 1995).
This paper describes a way in which an institution seeking to improve the quality of its courses can carry out a collective self-evaluation based on an internally designed checklist. This self-evaluation may, as in the case described, be used as part of the preparation for an external inspection or validation. Alternatively, it may be built into the institution's on-going programme of staff development. The authors hope that their suggestions will be relevant in a variety of teaching situations, and that similar self-evaluation checklists can be designed to meet local needs.