ABCI 2012 - ELT latest tendencies III
More summaries from the workshops - ABCI 2012 Where do we go from here? An overview of English teaching methodology in 2012 - Penny Ur Methodology Review: * Grammar translation method(use of L1) * Direct method (teacher - st dialogues, the original communicative one) *Audio-Lingual Method (no grammar explanations, ver little vocabulary, lgg is a set of habits) * Task-based lgg teaching (*) (mainly communicative tasks) These represent theoretical models, rarely if ever taught in their "pure" form. They provide a picture of different trends and orientations in the history of ELT. Very often developed as a "reaction against" . A post-method era Oposition in principle to the concept of method as a basis for English teaching. Some evidence that method is not the critical variable in successful teaching. There's an assumption that teachers need to be told what to do, how to teach. Political ...