Learning to teach learning: a teacher education course on learner training for in-service English instructors

Traditional teacher centered approaches have been gradually replaced in the last decades by more learner centered methodologies, but teachers have little opportunities to develop professionally and benefit from these innovations because of their working context. Support in terms of in-service courses has only recently been more widespread and whilst much input has distributed imported methodologies, there needs to be a focus on giving teachers the opportunity to adjust. The current paper proposes an in-service course which is not only concerned with promoting an innovation, but also attempts to give participants the opportunity to make their own reasoned decisions about the degree and manner of changes they wish to accept.