Archive for the ‘Experience of Language Teaching’ Category

Finished reading the Experience of Language Teaching a week or two ago, and here are some of my favourite quotes:

on continuous enrollment

“like teaching on a moving bus, or in the middle of a railway station, with people coming and going all the time” pg 232

on working under a permanently temporary contract

“There’s very much feeling that… if you speak out in any way, even if it’s because you want to improve the lot of students, then you’re likely not to be employed the next month” pg 233

“Casually employed teachers tend to teach casually” pg 59

on games

“Our students are used to disciplining themselves to learn. They’re used to it, they expect it, and some of them actually believe that if they’re having fun they can’t possibly be learning anything” ‘one teacher’ pg 184

on things that work great in one class and then bomb in the next

“You can only do some things with some of your classes some of the time” pg 151 (more…)