Procedures are described which were used in a short microteaching period in a Postgraduate Certificate in Education Program in the United Kingdom. In this program, a tutor works with groups of 15 students who have already had at least 2 years of teaching experience. The program of 7 days is divided as follows: (1) all 15 students teach one lesson,…

This bibliography is divided into two main sections. The first section cites books and articles concerning training teachers of English as a second language. The second section refers to books and articles dealing specifically with microteaching. Entries include publications from a wide range of countries, and most have been published since 1965.…

Describes a model summer institute for training teachers of English as a second language in adult basic education and the use of microteaching as a method for presentation of instructional materials. (RL)

This paper presents an innovative approach to finding an appropriate setting for preservice teachers to practice teaching methods and skills. Microteaching to peers is most common in teacher preparation, but it has obvious flaws in gaining realistic responses to questions and genuine discussion of topics presented. Teaching to actual students is…

A suggested approach to teaching instructional skills to future teachers of English as a second language incorporates microteaching techniques. These techniques include the practice teaching of limited and coherent groups of skills, one group at a time, scaled-down practice teaching situations, maximum relevant feedback to each trainee, and the…

This study sought to determine how video-taping and micro-teaching as a strategy for training student teachers affects the conduct of an English lesson prepared for bilingual students. An extensive review of the literature presents research findings on general concerns in teacher training, video-taping and micro-teaching as a strategy of teacher…

This study aimed to explore teacher candidates' reflections on the methodology and practice components of a pre-service English teacher training programme in Turkey. For this purpose, a qualitative case study method was followed. The participants were 176 senior year students at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The data were…

A workshop on microteaching and foreign language teacher training was held at the London Institute of Education in December, 1978. The papers presented in this volume are the papers that were prepared for this workshop as well as one paper that was commissioned during the workshop. The contributions are as follows: (1) "Microteaching and Foreign…

Describes an experiment carried out in a comprehensive school by students at a teachers' college in the Ruhr. Lists the positive and negative results, as learned from questioning the student teachers and the pupils. Preliminary conclusions are drawn in favor of including microteaching in the teacher-training curriculum. (Text is in German.)…

Discusses weaknesses in the present training curriculum for foreign language teachers in Germany. Discusses in some detail "interaction analysis" and "microteaching." Concludes with suggestions as to how research findings can be introduced into teacher-training seminars. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Follows on an earlier paper on microteaching for a preservice course in TEFL by outlining procedures and rationale for microteaching in an in-service TEFL course. Presents exploratory microteaching as an appropriate model for in-service teacher training in TEFL where the teacher trainer emphasizes methodological categories rather than teacher…

An outline and discussion of a 2-week microteaching program is presented. First, background information is given on the type of students in the program at the Institute of Education in London. These students are presumed to know and to have used foreign language teaching skills. Secondly, the eight sessions are discussed. These sessions include…

An attempt to introduce assessment in a program of microteaching for pre-service Saudi-Arabian teaching led to the formulation of prescriptive categories of teacher behaviors. Behaviors involving "warm-up,""revision and linkage,""situational presentation,""modeling," and "class practice" were…

This study examined how videotaped microteaching for training student teachers affected the conduct of an English-as-a-Second-Language lesson, noting how faithfully student teachers transferred teaching behaviors acquired via videotaped microteaching to the classroom. Three student teachers in a bilingual education program participated. Results…

Not all poor people live in cities, but as the problems of those who do are intensified by the urban press, the needs of the urban poor of all racial and cultural backgrounds deserve emphasis. The children of these poor are oriented to the physical and visual rather than to the aural. They are content-centered, problem-centered, externally…