ELT Journal Chapter 9

The Role of NLP in Teachers' Classroom Discourse

Hi everybody,

This week we learned about NLP and discussed about some key points of it. Here are some questions for you. Please write your answers in the comment part. Do not forget to write your name.

1- Do you think your teachers are aware of NLP techniques?

2- How would language learners and teachers benefit from NLP?

3- Do you think you can use this technique in your own teaching? Are there any disadvantages?

Journal Topic for Thursday: I guess I forgot to tell you the journal topic in our last class. For Thursday, please write your comments in your journal notebook about the following topic:

How can people become successful in life? How do you define "success in life"?

UNIT 2 - A SEASON IN UTOPIA

Hello friends, this week we are going to discuss about utopias and perfect societies. Please answer the following questions after you read the text on page 26.



1- What is the aim of Brook Farm society?

2- What are the incomes of this society?

3- Is it money which dominates this society?

4- What do you think is the most utopic practice of this society?

5- Are there social classes in this society?

6-Would you like to live in Brook Farm?

7-Do you think it is possible today to create such a society? Why or why not?

ELT Journal Chapter 10

Dear friends,
Below you will see the questions I wrote on the board today. Please answer the first few questions at the beginning of this post. You don't have to answer the rest but consider them please.

a)Do you think the language learning situation in Taiwan and the students have some similarities with Turkish context? If there are some similarities, what are they?

b) Would it be possible to use this technique in language classes in Turkey? Would it be beneficial to use this technique in ELT departments? If so how?

c) Would you personally like to use this technique in order to develop your speaking ability? Why /why not?


1- What is an audio-taped journal?
2-What are the benefits of dialogue journals?
3- What are the benefits of audio-taped journals?
4- How did the researcher colloect data and analyze them? What is the method of the study?
5- How were the journal entries evaluated?
6- Why is the teacher response so important in dialogue journal exchanges?
7- What are the principles the teacher followed for the success of audio-taped journals?
8- What were the advantages of the audio-taped journals for the teacher at the end of the process?
9- What are the limitations of audio-taped journals?