Date:
December 1984
Page No.:
121
Writer(s):
Jack C. Richards and Nobuyuki Hino, Department of English as a Second Language, University of Hawaii at Manoa
We do not learn to know men through their coming to us.
To find out what sort of persons tlley are, we must go to
them. ...Goethe.
English is the world's second language. The vast international
industry which is necessary to sustain the current status of
English includes millions of learners in classrooms around the
world, teachers, textbook writers and publishers, as well as
those who service different sections of the industry. Within
the category of support services, institutions of higher learning
and teacher-training colleges occupy a vital position. Through
teacher-training programs of different sorts they are partly
responsible for the impact teachers have in contributing to
successful or unsuccessful language learning.
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