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Lynch, Tony – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper presentes a case study of an innovative class at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) in an English for Academic purposes context in which spontaneous topics raised by the learners took the place of a pre-planned syllabus. The target students were late-matriculating research students and those with particularly weak spoken English.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development