Watch this Space

Abstract

There comes a point in every language teacher’s career when practice in the classroom is incongruent with preconceived, sometimes idealistic expectations. This is due in part to the mismatch between those expectations and the psychological realities of second language learning. Moreover, the vagaries of the classroom environment make it all the more difficult to predict how learning will unfold. And yet we continue to teach, all the while striving to refine our intuitive strategies through experience.

Keywords

• Applied linguistics
• Second language acquisition
• SLA
• Teaching
• Teaching languages
• Study of language
• Teachers