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ERIC Number: ED294416
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Jun
Pages: 71
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Peace Corps Botswana Language Teacher Training Workshop Report (Gaborone, Botswana, Africa, June 3-13, 1985).
Peace Corps, Gaborone (Botswana).
A Peace Corps workshop for prospective language teachers is reported. The workshop's goals were to train a team of teacher candidates in effective language instruction methods, Peace Corps organization and operations, cross-cultural skills, and adult second language instruction techniques. Workshop content covered: discussion of the teacher selection criteria; expectations of the candidates; group norms; the Peace Corps training philosophy and goals; characteristics and role of a good instructor; assumptions about adult learning; the audio-lingual method and classroom techniques; community language learning; behavioral objectives; lesson plan format, development, and delivery; a grammar synopsis; roles of the cultural informant; classroom atmosphere; a learning styles inventory; cross-cultural presentation methods; a structural drill; language games; and development of visual and instructional aids. (MSE)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Students
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Peace Corps, Gaborone (Botswana).
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A