Speaking for Understanding

This article considers words of praise (or teachers who cared about their subjects and their pupils). The key issue here is clearly the gap that exists in some classrooms between what we are aiming at in education, and what we are in some cases, at least, actually achieving. The article mentions th...

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Main Author: Adrian Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:https://ajap.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3845
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teachers' inadequate training; teachers' pressures
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