Group Facilitation in Language Teacher Education
    
Animation de groupe dans la formation des enseignants en langues
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Reflective diary entries

Introduction

Keeping a diary, as most of us know from the guilty looks our learners and course participants give us when we ask them how their diaries are going, is not everyone’s cup of tea. Sometimes it just feels like too much at the end of a busy day; sometimes there are more attractive options than the confrontation with a blank page; and, let’s face it, not everyone is in love with writing. However, as trainers, we have frequently found it useful to keep notes on our work with groups, particularly when we want to ‘unravel’ an event and make sense of it, or when we want to understand why a particular session has gone especially well or badly. The extracts in this section represent ways of reflecting-on-action and include trainee and participant perspectives as well as that of a facilitator.

We have decided to include these extracts, as there is only so much you can express about facilitation in general. Reflecting on your own experiences, which are always situated in a particular situation, allows you to do deeper. Through the personal voices in the extracts, which follow, we hope to take you straight to the heart of what it feels like to be involved in a group either as a facilitator or as a participant.

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