Classroom Dynamics

Jill Hadfield

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Jill Hadfield

Classroom Dynamics

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the staff and students of the following institutions who sent replies to the questionnaires �Moaning and Groaning in the Foreign Language Staffroom’ 1 and 2, and �The Old Lags’ Project’:

Bell School, Cambridge; Bell School, Norwich; Bell School, Saffron Walden; Bourneville College; Bradford and Ilkley College; Brighton Polytechnic; Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology; Centre for Applied Language Studies, Reading; Christchurch College, Canterbury; Eurocentre, Bournemouth; Eurocentre, Forest Hill; Filton Technical College; Greenhill College; Hammersmith and West London College; Kilburn Polytechnic; Kingsway College; The Language Centre of Ireland; Millbank College; Pilgrims, Canterbury; Redbridge Technical College; Tresham College.

Particular thanks are due to: Rod Bolitho, Larry Cole, Charlie Hadfield, Maggy McNorton, Jenny Pearson, Gill Porter-Ladousse, Adrienne Short, Tessa Woodward, and all the staff of the Language Centre, South Devon College of Arts and Technology for stimulating discussions and revealing insights into group problems.

Above all, my thanks go to Angi Malderez, with whom this project began, and who has contributed more than I can possibly acknowledge to my understanding of groups and how they work.

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