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ERIC Number: EJ352610
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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An Experiment in Role Reversal: Teachers as Language Learners.
Lowe, Tim
ELT Journal, v41 n2 p89-96 Apr 1987
When English as a second language teachers reversed traditional roles and became learners of a foreign language (Chinese), analysis of their diary entries revealed that the role reversal made the teachers reconsider the roles of praise, grammar, repetition, revision, and communicative teaching. (CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Diaries, Empathy, Language Teachers, Mandarin Chinese, Perspective Taking, Positive Reinforcement, Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Skills, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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