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The Distinctive Characteristics of Foreign Language Teachers
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Borg, Simon – Language Teaching Research, 2006
This paper aims to extend our understanding of what it means to be a language teacher by examining ways in which language teachers are seen to be different to teachers of other subjects. Language teachers' distinctiveness was defined by over 200 practising and prospective language teachers from a range of contexts, and the analysis also included…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Teachers, Native Speakers, Teaching Methods