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A teacher looks at teachers' diaries
Currently Director of the EFL Unit and Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, where she teaches on a wide range of English language courses and programmes for teachers. She holds qualifications in applied linguistics and in modern languages. She is the author of ESP in Perspective (Collins, 1984), and co-author with C. Shaw of Materials and Methods in ELT (Blackwells, 1993). She has also published teaching materials, and many articles on ELT and ESP. Her current interests lie particularly in the area of teacher research in the classroom.
Diary-writing in an educational context has become a popular technique, with several different types of application. it has now been used quite widely in both language teaching and in teacher training. However, despite its reported advantages in both teaching and research, there are not many diary studies available based on the writing of experienced language teachers. This paper examines the diaries of four teachers working on the same language programme in terms of a variety of topic headings, and suggests that diary-writing can be a useful tool for both classroom research and personal–professional development.
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