Applying linguistics in English language teacher training for speakers of other languages

Abstract

Knowledge about language and language learning ought to form a bridge between trainee roles as language learner and language teacher. The challenge is to develop language study in such a way that it supports both language learning and decision-making in language teaching, while also making accessible to teachers an expanding field of study into which they can travel just as far as they decide to. This article describes a framework which has been used for the development of such procedures.