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Five Thousand Years in Five Thousand Words (Intentions image (Clarify…
Five Thousand Years in
Five Thousand Words
Intentions
Clarify what method and methodology are
Why and why not methods
Show how the teacher`s principles can be evidence in her/his teaching practices
Help language teachers to understand terms and activities they refer to, in the contex of teacher-readers day to day classroom realities and practices
History of language teaching and learning
Mesopotamia was the first part of the world where ELT took place
As a result of Sumerians and Akkadians, two different cultures and linguistics form
ETL started in 1400s
Language education as a discipline appear to be relatively new
Some of books that were relevant at the begining of the method and methodlogy's discussion are
Chapter: Observations upon methods in the teaching of modern languages.
Methods od teaching Modern Languages: Papers on the value and on methods of modern language intruction. (1893)
Beyond the methods fetish (1994)
Modern Languages as a College Discipline. (1887)
Methodology
It has different meanings according to different points of view and authors
A collection and combination of methods and procedures
the study of methods used in language teaching and learning
It is able to provide the teacher the professional thinking and discourse to "rename her/his experience" and learn troughout his/her personal life
It is inavaluable in teacher education
It has three key roles for teachers
As members of a community
As reflective practitioners
As lifelong learners
"What practicing teachers actually do in the classroom in order to achieve their stated or unstated teaching objectives"- Kumaravadivelu
Language teaching methods
Define by Freeman (2011) as set of principles and technique combined
That principles are based in 5 aspects of language teaching
The teaching processes
The learning processes
the learner
Target language and culture
The teacher
It is a systematic set of teaching practices based on a particular theory of language and language learning according to Rodgers (2001)
Ecleticism has be seen for some teachers asa choice of method
According to Penny(2013) It is a set of principles and procedures based on a theory of language and language acquisition
How the language are learnt, which is implemented through specific types of classroom needs
The Anti-methods and Post-Methods Era
Some authors in this era are
Kumaravadivelu
Canagarajah
Phillipson
Post-Methods
They (integrants of Post-Methods movement) claims that all methods are bad, that the methods were just a colonial phase that we were going through
Anti-Methods
It refers to a group of language teachers who oppose the whole notion of method as a destructive force in language teaching and learning
Maria Isabel Arango Patiño February 7th, 2018.
Practicum 1
