224 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 171 X
ISBN-13: 978 185856 171 4
September 2000

In its exploration of four themes, this book shows how researchers, teachers and pupils for whom English is an additional language can develop together. The first theme is research - of a kind that is of direct benefit to teachers - done by teachers and teacher educators, with and for teachers. The second is professional development, since it shows how the research contributes to becoming a better teacher. The third theme is collaboration - of learners with teachers, teachers with teachers and teachers with teacher educators. Finally, the studies are set within different language education contexts, seeking commonalities where the terms 'foreign', 'second' and 'modern' have generally been divisive.

The issues covered include the role of language across the curriculum, the links between oracy and literacy in bilingual learning, the relationship between communicative teaching and communicative testing, teacher development through distance learning programmes, and the appropriacy to context of educational philosophies and technologies. Illustrating how colleagues in schools and higher education institutions can work together effectively for the benefit of all learners, it will be invaluable to educators searching for examples of practitioner research to further their own development.

Mike Beaumont and Teresa O'Brien are senior members of the Centre for English Language Studies in Education at the University of Manchester. Their contributors are colleagues in CELSE and teachers and teacher educators in Europe, Asia and Africa.