The Post Method Era
The Post Method Era
The Post Method Era
To learn how to use different approaches and methods and understand when they
might be useful
- To understand some of the issues and controversities that characterized the history of
language teaching
- To participate in language learning experiences based on different approaches and
methods as a basis for reflectionand comparison
- To be aware of the rich set of activity resources available to the imaginative teacher
- To appreciate how theory and practice can be linked from a variety of different
prespectives.
However, teachers and teachers in training need to be able to use approaches and methods
flexible and creatively based on their own judgement and experience.
Looking Forward
The initiatives for changing programs and pedagogy may come from within the
profession from teachers, administrators, theoreticiants and researchers. Therefore, by
identifying some of the factors that have influenced language teaching trends in the past and
that can be expected to continue to do so in the future such as trend in the profession, guruled innovations, response to technnology, influence in the academic disclipines, research
influences, learner-based innovation, crossover educational trends and crossover from other
disciplines.
Despite changes in the statusof approaches and methods, we can therefore expect the
field of second and foreign language teaching in the twenty first century to be no less a
ferment of theories, ideas and practices that it has been in the past.