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ThePoet

Hello everyone.

I am curently cmpleting a research assignment on the philosophy of education and have chosen as my topic "the differences in philosophies of EFL teachers"

I have been looking for papers and published lectures about this but havent been too successful. If you are currently taking an M.A. TEFL or TESOL, or if you have already taken one, or if you've come across interesting articles and you have found .PDF or HTML sources that deal with how EFL teachers teach, teaching styles of EFL teachers, Strategies for successful EFL teaching, curriculum choices for the EFL classroom or EFL classroom management skills, could you please post those resources here or message me with the information.

Thanks everyone,

Poet

ThePoet · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

Its hard to believe nobody has studied this or is interested in this. I was surprised that it hit the second page less than 24 hours after it was posted. So many people have asked for help to find Masters programs on this topic in the last couple of years and now nobody cares about some of the most basic issues on the topic?

Poet

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

I don't know if this is that basic an issue in ESL, and this might be why you're not getting a response.

This is going to fall into the category of teaching issues in SLA which isn't all that developed from what I can see. Your topic sounds more like a research question, but there's some stuff out there. Nothing online, sorry.

Oxford, R., Barcelos, A., Saleh, A., Longhini, A., Tomlinson, S., Harrington, C. & Lavine, R. (1998). Metaphorically speaking: Analyzing narratives according to teacher role and control. Paper presented at the TESOL Annual Convention, Seattle, WA (USA).

Olshtain, E. (1998). Language teaching: An ideology not a method. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Nash, R. (1976). Teacher expectations and pupil learning. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Levine, J. & Wang, M. (1983). Teacher and student perceptions: Implications for learning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum

Hanson-Frieze, I., Francis, W. & Hartman-Hanusa, B. (1983). Defining success in classroom settings. In J. Levine & M. Wang (Eds.). Teacher and student perceptions: Implications for learning (pp. 3-2 Cool

. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

although theory based,
teaching english as a second or foreign language by marianne celce-murcia has a good section on different approaches to teaching in the first section

ThePoet · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject:

Excellent,

thank you very much for the replies. Since I posted I did find a few other pdf's, but they were only available through ERIC and JSTOR and you need a subscription for those. Luckily, through the university I am studying at I have access to ERIC. I might spring for the membership fee to JSTOR through the American Educational Research Association.

take care,

Poet

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

It's probably obvious, but just in case, have you been using http://www.scholar.google.com ?

Also, does ERIC really require a subscription? I get stuff off there all the time. And doesn't your university at least have an electronic subscription to any of the major TESOL journals eg. TESOL Quarterly, System, ELT Journal etc? Otherwise try http://writing.berkeley.edu:16080/TESL-EJ/ which may have some helpful articles.

edit: sorry, link was wrong. fixed.

I have to say though, I'm not sure how you will be able to do your topic - the scope just seems too broad.

Woland · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:38 am Post subject:

ThePoet

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

ThePoet · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject:

Thank you GAJ!

I will read them this morning.

I was also informed that I have offended people by saying American universities would not have as much need for TEFL resources. It was stated that I was calling universities south of Canada inferior. This was not my intention. When I speak of America, I mean the entire north American continent. When I refer to the United States, I am referring to the 50 states that make up the U.S.A.

I also did not mean to imply that American (north american) universities don't have TEFL or TESOL programs. Of course many do, and they would see the need to subscribe to those types of journals. However, my university does not have a TESOL or Linguistics major as part of their offering, so they do not subscribe specifically to TESOL or TEFL programs. However, they do have an extensive library that subscribes to many education, psychology and business journals and databases.

Sorry if I stated anything that would be confusing or offensive to some.

Poet