Modern English Teacher January 1995 [antikvár]

Editorial Happy New Year to all MET readers, and welcome to the fourth volume of the 'new' MET. So, what's new for 1995? MET has a new section: For & Against. Simon Haines, in the first contribution to this section, looks at the pros and cons of pairwork. This may strike you as a surprising topic. Surely everyone does pairwork? There are no disadvantages, are there? Well, see what Simon Haines has to say on the topic on page 55. I hope that For & Against will not only give you something to think about, but that it will also prove to be a good format for use on teacher-training courses. And I look forward to receiving contributions from you on other topics. Maybe this section is suited to an article jointly written by two colleagues who have opposing views on a topic. As I've said before in an editorial, when I'm putting together an issue of MET, one or more themes sometimes emerge. This issue, however, is rather a celebration of diversity! And where the same topic, coursebooks, does come up in two articles, one writer (Frank Fitzpatrick in Keynote) suggests ways of teaching without a coursebook, while the other (Paul Sanderson in Tips and Hints) suggests focusing on the book in the first lesson of a course. A theme which continues to interest and challenge you is error correction. There are two more articles on this topic in Current Issues and there'll be more next time, too. Last year I wrote a note in an editorial encouraging you to write and let me know what you have liked or not liked in MET, and which ideas you have used successfully with your learners. Thank you for your positive letters, including the letter from Simon Gill, who has used Jill Cadorath's idea for phrasal verbs and Shaun Gates' 'gambling' idea (both in Classroom Ideas, Vol 3 No 3) with a group of teachers in Slovakia, with whom, he says, both ideas 'went down a real storm'. I think that means they liked them So, if you haven't yet made a New Year's resolution, let it be to write to MET. Thérese Tobin Please send letters and articles to: Modern English Teacher Macmillan ELT, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 2XS