Case Study: Personal Constructs of Second Language Teaching

SUMMARY

This study presents a methodology by which language teachers may be helped to become aware of and make explicit their own and others’ personal theories of ‘good teaching’ The question of what constitutes effective second language teaching may be answered differently by different teachers, but any school or departmental situation where more than one teacher is involved in teaching the same group of students requires a team consensus The present study demonstrates how this consensus may be reached by the use of the repertory grid technique based on Kelly's Personal Construct Theory and the negotiation of meaning