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THE POST-MEDIA ERA - Coggle Diagram
THE POST-MEDIA ERA
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The "top-down" criticism
Theachers have to accept on faith the claims or theory underlying the method and apply them to their own practice
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Lack of research basis
Approaches and methods are often based on the assumption that the processes of second language learning are fully understood
Many of the books written by method gurus are full of claims and assertions about how people learn languages.
Much of such research does not support the often simplistic theories and prescriptions found in some approaches and methods
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Looking forward
The approaches and methods surveyed in this book have identigied a number of issues that we expect to continue to shape the future of language teaching in different ways
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We close, therefore, by identifying some of factors that have influenced language teahcing trends in the past and that can be expected to continue to do in the feature
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Despited changes in the status of approaches and methods, we can there expect the field of secondlanguage teaching in the 21century to be no less a ferment of theories, ideas, and practices than has been in the past
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