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Enlightening, but not to ERF Awards 2016

be taken at bedtime – all the winners

Wayne Trotman recommends small doses of Claudia Civinini reports on who picked up the prizes

this new work from a giant of language education at this year’s Extensive Reading Foundation awards

Educating Second teach has been conceptualised. ratives that Freeman provides he Extensive Read- illustrated by Seungjun Park tions by Redbean Design Pte
Language Teachers Part three concerns the core in order to illustrate aspects ing Foundation (ERF) and Bioh Kang (e-future Ltd (National Geographic
Donald Freeman, Oxford ideas of the thinking, know- from his own classroom career, TLanguage Learners Liter- Graded Comic Readers) Learning/Cengage Learning
Applied Linguistics; ing and reflecting teacher, all which he admits, like many ature Awards 2016 were recently Page Turners)
978-0-1944-2756-2 issues that ‘undergird the way other teachers, he fell into. announced at the Vocab@Tokyo Young Learners
we approach educating teachers Part two concerns learning Conference. Adolescents & Adults: Upper
he several key texts by in this field’. Part four points to to be a language teacher, and The award aims to support Vera The Alien Hunter 3 by Intermediate & Advanced
this author on language ideas for designing teacher edu- looks firstly at arguments as the development of language Jason Wilburn and Casey Kim,
Tteacher education over cation programmes, while the to whether or not ‘teachers are learner literature in English illustrated by Seungjun Park Battle for Big Tree Country by
the last quarter of a century appendices include applications born’ or ‘made over time’. and to encourage extensive and Bioh Kang (e-future Gregory Strong, illustrated by
have perhaps had more effect on of Freeman’s points and theo- Part four looks at how teacher reading in language education. Graded Comic Readers) Redbean Design Pte Ltd
teachers and teacher educators ries. As such, this title, with its thinking became part of lan- ERF encourages teachers and (National Geographic Learning/
around the world than those by many figures and tables, cannot guage teaching; chapter eleven students to read the shortlisted Adolescents & Adults: Beginner Cengage Learning Page
anyone else currently involved be regarded as bedtime read- here is particularly interesting books (see the list of nominees Turners)
in the profession. He admits, ing, and is probably best delved as it delves into teacher reflec- in the May 2016 Gazette) and to Sherlock Holmes: The
however, that undertaking this into in very small doses in quiet tion, an aspect of professional vote and comment online. The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur
book project, which gathers moments in the staffroom when development that is becoming jury then chooses the winners Conan Doyle, retold by
and organises his ideas, was colleagues are long gone to of increasing interest. Free- taking into account votes. This Lesley Thompson, illustrated
at times an arduous task. Curi- the chalk face (or whiteboard man draws upon earlier work year’s winners include many by Giorgio Bacchin (OUP)
ously, its subtitle, ‘The Same marker-face). It’s not meant to by Schön and Dewey to illus- original stories, one of the most
Things Done Differently’, (an be read from cover to cover, and trate how critical reflection famous detectives in the history Adolescents & Adults:
ongoing belief I’m sure many I’ll admit that while some parts by teachers can trigger deeper of English literature and plenty Elementary
teacher educators with Free- baffled me, many others were understanding of what it is they of aliens. Below are the 2016
man’s experience in ELT would extremely enlightening. do on a daily basis. winners, divided into six cat- Night at the Museum:
concur with) hints at a healthy Part one lays out the core Containing tables, figures egories according to age group Secret of the Tomb by
degree of scepticism. ideas of the book – learning and scenarios, appendices and language proficiency. Con- Lynda Edwards (Scholas-
This title examines theo- to teach a second language is A–C would be most useful for gratulations! tic Readers)
ries, concepts and processes a social process that depends teacher educators wishing to And the awards go to …
in order to understand how on a set of understandings the put together a course involv- Adolescents & Adults:
second language teachers use author calls ‘social facts’. It ing activities based upon the Very Young Learners Intermediate
what they know in order to do then outlines central challenges thoughts gathered by Free-
what they do in the classroom. in second language teacher edu- man throughout his illustrious Vera The Alien Hunter 2 by A New Song for Nina by
The first part frames the prob- cation. Summarised ‘chapter career. n Jason Wilburn and Casey Kim, Fiona Joseph, illustra-
lem of language teaching as arguments’ that begin and end
Freeman sees it, while part each chapter tend to make the Wayne Trotman is a teacher
two examines implications of text more accessible, and so educator at Izmir Katip Çelebi
the ways in which learning to do the several interesting nar- University, Turkey

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