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An experiment in role reversal: teachers as language learners
Tim Lowe has taught EFL since 1975, and worked in The Sudan, Poland, and England. He is currently the International House visiting fellow in the ESOL Department at the Institute of Education at the University of London. In 1981 he established at International House in London the Distance Training Programme for the Royal Society of Arts Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults, for which in 1986 he was awarded first prize in the English Speaking Union's English Language Competition (unpublished material category).
This article describes an experiment in which, with the aid of individually kept, confidential diaries, a group of teachers consciously reversed role: they became learners of a foreign language. The article describes the nature of the experiment, and presents an edited compilation of some of its findings, as expressed in a public seminar. Though this was a one-off experiment designed to give individual teachers an opportunity to develop their personal awareness, two important issues emerged. First, many of the issues raised seem to have general relevance to language teachers. Second, the format itself of the experiment seems to provide an accessible model for similar experiments that could be set up by teachers anywhere, as part of a programme of action research.
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