"While I might be the expert in this language at this place and time, the learner is the expert in his or her life. If I am going to figure out how this particular learner learns, I had better listen more than I speak, and watch more than I perform." * * Virginia Sauvé, Voices and Visions: An Introduction to Teaching ESL (Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada, 2000), p. 11. Used by permission of Oxford University Press Canada. |