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ELT Journal 2002 56(4):404-411; doi:10.1093/elt/56.4.404
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The teacher as language learner: worlds of difference?

Jo McDonough1

1 The University of Essex, Email: jomcd{at}essex.ac.uk

This article reports on an individual's experience of being both a language learner and a language teacher, and argues that in many ways these are very different worlds that do not necessarily meet. It examines a number of related studies, in particular those where teachers have chosen to learn a language for purposes of personal–professional development, and briefly checks the writer's own perceptions with those of other teachers and learners. The final section of the article suggests some of the lessons that may be drawn from the data, and a number of reasons, drawn from work on teachers' thinking, as to why the two sets of views might be so discrepant, and finally stresses the importance of context in any such analysis.

Received May 2001.


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