Microteaching has developed since its inception at Stanford University in 1963. Basically it consists of a simplification of the teaching situation and the provision of feedback. The model, first applied to foreign language (FL) teaching by Robert Politzer, involves a definition of skills relevant to FL teaching and the preparation of performance…

The general education skills focused on in traditional models of microteaching are not necessarily the most important ones for language teachers. A microteaching model addressing organizational skills and the giving of instructions, particularly well suited to language teachers' needs, is described and illustrated, with suggestions for further…

Discusses microteaching, a training context in which a teacher's situation is reduced in scope or simplified in systematic ways. This article addresses microteaching as an inservice tool, and discusses how school-based microteaching can be beneficial to all involved in the learning and teaching process. (Author/VWL)

Describes a procedure used in in-service training in Turkey which encourages feedback discussion that does not make individual teachers feel threatened. Contentrating on areas of teaching rather than individual performance, individual "micro-tasks" were initially discussed in small groups, followed by the teachers' comments on the…

Four issues of "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents include the following articles: "Feedback: An Anti-Madeirization Compound" by Henry M. Schaafsma; "Using the Personal Pronoun 'I' as a Compound Subject" by G. Pang and D. Chu; "The Consonant'L' in Initial and Final Positions" by Maybelle Chong; "Sentence Expansion for the Elementary Level" by…