I have attempted a case study of one of my learners (who should naturally remain anonymous) taking account of his / her success profile for other academic subjects, home backgrounds, peer group pressures, motivations, other languages spoken (if any), career aspirations (especially involving  languages), and I have related my findings to this learner's overall performance in the English class.

April, 2000

Leslie Simonfalvi

INTERNATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE
Budapest, Hungary

Let's see how we might move from a simpler to a more realistic game model in a real-world example of strategic thinking: in a teacher class relationship in shaping the near future of their teaching - learning.
For this example, the players will be a teacher of English considering some changes, i. e. training further training re-training towards a higher efficiency, and a group of students who are also considering some changes, i. e. learning more efficient learning methods.

The two choices are to use

Hello. Im Leslie Simonfalvi, director of the International Teacher Training & Development College in Budapest, Hungary.

Hello. Im Leslie Simonfalvi, director of the International Teacher Training & Development College in Budapest, Hungary.

I would like to contribute to the success of your educational reform, or more specifically to the language teaching language learning revolution, by commenting on quite a few of the statements in this paper.

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