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This chapter will:
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explain what we mean by calling learners key developing practitioners;
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introduce five propositions about this view of learners;
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explain why we believe these propositions are important;
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outline our plans for the whole book.
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Further reading
Breen, M. P. 2006 Collegial Development in ELT: The Interface between Global Processes and Local Understandings. In S. Gieve and I. K. Miller (eds), Understanding the Language Classroom. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: 200–25. Emphasises collegiality as the way to face challenges that may undermine language teachers’ personal professional identities.
Gilbert, F. 2004 I’m a Teacher, Get me Out of Here London, Short Books. A very popular book and a heartfelt critique, by a teacher, of the current situation for teachers in the UK.
Giroux, H. A. 1997 Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope. Boulder, CO, Westview Press. Broadens the scope of the debate, relating his notion of ‘the politics of hope’ to pedagogy in general.
Tudor, I. 2001 The Dynamics of the Language Classroom. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. A view of the learner very much in tune with the ideas in this volume.
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Allwright, D., Hanks, J. (2009). General Introduction: Learners, and What We Think of Them. In: The Developing Language Learner. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230233690_1
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