On Defining the Objectives of a Short-Term Training Program: Grammar

Abstract

A year ago at the TESOL conference in New York I presented a paper entitled EDUCATION vs. TRAINING. In that paper I maintained that the significant difference between a training program given in a period of, say, six to ten weeks, and an educational program given over a period of one or two academic years is reflected in the depth and breadth of the study of the facts and theories that constitute the field of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). In the educational situation there is time for