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Peer reviewedRichards, Jack C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Focuses on the nature and role of teaching principles. The article discusses the nature of teachers' maxims through analysis of teachers' accounts of their teaching and lesson protocols. Findings indicate that these maxims reflect cultural factors, belief systems, experience, and training. Understanding the importance and influence of these maxims…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Cultural Influences, Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes
Approaches to Observation in Classroom Research: Macroscopic and Microscopic Views of L2 Classrooms.
Peer reviewedSpada, Nina; Lyster, Roy – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Describes the development and organization of the Colt (Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching) observation scheme and Lyster and Ranta's (1997) error treatment model, instruments including predetermined categories to describe features of instructional input and interaction in second language classrooms. Concludes that the choice of…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Course Objectives, Error Analysis (Language), Interaction Process Analysis
