Journal Writing: A Means of Professional Development in ESL Classroom at Undergraduate Level

dc.creator	D. Samrajya Lakshmi
dc.date	2009-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:11:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:11:17Z
dc.identifier	1305-578X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e0bb392334854ee29d2b8cc7db8bb817
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14294
dc.description	The duty of the Teacher of English is not merely teaching English texts but he/she should help the students in enhancing various other skills like communicative, analytical, logical and soft skills. To compete with the growing demands on the English teachers, timely orientation towards professionalism is of dire importance. For over three decades now, it has been found that methodology, training and concept alone will not make a teacher competent enough to train the students at college level to meet the students’ requirements. In this fast changing global scenario, no other processes excepting reflective practice, which is highly exploratory is the best and could serve the ever growing needs of the English language learners and teachers by integrating both theory and practice. This paper focuses on the potential of journal writing as a reflective professional development tool, which is purely a personal low-tech way of incorporating reflective practice in day-to-day classroom teaching by individual teachers. My attempt through this paper is to advertise the use of journal writing not only to the experienced but also to the novice teacher to make his/her class effective.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
dc.relation	http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume%205/No.2/dslakshami.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-578X
dc.source	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 9-20 (2009)
dc.subject	Reflective practice
dc.subject	Journal writing
dc.subject	professional Development.
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Journal Writing: A Means of Professional Development in ESL Classroom at Undergraduate Level
dc.type	article