ABSTRACT
As you begin your secondary English initial teacher education (ITE) course, you will bring to it a perception of what English teaching is about which has been formed from a combination of the following: your own school experience of being taught English; your undergraduate studies in English, and perhaps other subjects; information you have gleaned from the media, observation visits to schools, and conversations with teachers you know; and, in some cases, work experience which is related to your planned career, such as teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) teaching or running a youth club drama group.
