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CUP's The Experience of Language Teaching by Rose Senior. It won the 2005 Ben Warren-International House Trust Prize (books that win this are generally very good). I had a quick browse through and there's a chapter earlier on about what the CELTA was like for those who did it.
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/news/20060503/

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

The title alone makes me shudder.

tedkarma · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:27 am Post subject:

The author makes me nervous . . .

fluffyhamster · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 5:39 am Post subject:

Aw, come on guys, with a book title like that, and her beautiful looks, I think we have here the potential J.K Rowling of the ELT world. Step aside, Emma Vole...

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

I haven't read that paticular book, but all of the books I've read in the Cambridge Language Teacher series have been good- but a lot of the information in the books was covered in my teacher training programme.

One big difference is that in my teacher training programme, we read academic essays, and in the Cambridge books, academic essays (often the same ones that I read at university) are paraphrased, almost as if I was reading a student essay.

The prose style of the Cambridge books is generally much more accessible than in the academic essays themselves, though.