The Exploratory Practice Centre

            EPCentre---A subgroup of CRILE
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 Exploratory Practice

is an indefinitely sustainable way for classroom language teachers and learners, while getting on with their learning and teaching, to develop their own understandings of life in the language classroom. It is essentially a way for teachers and learners to work together to understand aspects of their classroom practice that puzzle them, through the use of normal pedagogic procedures (standard monitoring, teaching and learning activities) as investigative tools.　

 AIMS  

Welcome to the Exploratory Practice website. 

OUR AIMS IN FIVE PROMISES

RESOURCES

Exploratory Practice: Some Introductory Readings 

Putting 'Quality of Life' First: Towards a New View of Exploratory Practice

EPCentre NEWSLETTERS (discontinued)

Number Three

(Feb.2003)

Number Two

(March 2002)

Number One

(July 2001)

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

EVENT REPORTS

More has recently been written about EP, in both English and Portuguese, both in the form of papers and in the form of much shorter pieces (MORE….   

Reports from Rio include our pioneering teachers and learners Conference in Rio last June, and a European visit made by members of the Rio group in early 2004 (MORE…. 

Language Teaching Research last year published an issue (7/2) entirely devoted to Exploratory Practice (MORE.... More EP-related articles will be published in LTR soon. 

More EP-related events are in the pipeline (MORE…. 

Establishing new links with Brazil. We are establishing an electronic link with IPEL (Instituto de Pesquisa e Ensino de Linguas) at PUC-Rio, the Catholic University in Rio where Ines Miller works.  The web address for IPEL is http://www.letras.puc-rio.br/ipel/ (in Portuguese)  　

Promoting our interactive e-mail list. We intend to make better use of our interactive e-mail list as our major forum for dealing with queries, and for discussing issues we care about.  If you wish to send a message to those on the list, please e-mail to exprac@lists.lancs.ac.uk  Meanwhile, if your name is not already on the interactive e-mail list, contact Lydia Tseng at epmatter@hotmail.com or l.tseng@lancaster.ac.uk for information about how to get involved.   

Our language policy is that since Brazil is where most EP activity is taking place, we should make available on our website EP-related material in Portuguese, rather than wait for translations.  If anyone wants anything translated into English we hope they will let us know, perhaps by using our interactive e-mail list (MORE….

Dick Allwright, Lancaster, March 2004.

CONTACTS

EP Centre team members:

Contact information

E-mail: epmatter@hotmail.com 

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