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Teacher Value System
Author(s) -
Walmsley John B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3586565
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics , statistics
Researchers in the foreign language classroom are frequently confronted by the phenomenon of students producing almost completely nonsensical utterances. In my view, such utterances are not accidental. They are, in fact, the product of conditioning by the teacher. This conditioning, in turn, is guided by the values which the teacher explicitly or implicitly holds. The concept of the Teacher Value System was developed to reveal these values and, thereby, to account for observed patterns of teacher‐student behavior. In addition to proposing a rational explanation for a set of otherwise apparently irrational phenomena, the concept also affords insights into some essential prerequisites for genuinely communicative teaching.