Epistemology and Contemporary Methodologies in English teaching
Characterized by frequent change and innovation, the foundation of contemporary language teaching was developed during the early part of the twentieth century, as applied linguists as others pursued to build principles and procedures for the design of teaching methods and materials (RICHARDS; RODGERS, 2014, p. 1). The aim of the present text is to walk through the changes in language teaching through the methodologies, giving emphasis to the ones which are still used and providing a glimpse on what is to come or starting to happen with new approaches and the use of technology on language teaching
The first method cited in literature is the Grammar-Translation method. Its origins …show more content…
CLL has as its aims: raise the achievements of all learners; help teacher build positive relationships among students; give students the experience of healthy social, psychological logical and cognitive development; replace the competitive organizational structure of most classrooms and schools reducing student’s …show more content…
Society has included technologies in education for a while now, as we know that approaches such as the Audiolingual would rely on them. According to Warshauer (1996), the introduction of new information and communication technology (ITC) has originated a field called Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The same author has divided the CALL in three stages, Behaviorist CALL, Communicative CALL (influenced by CLT and mostly likely where most schools are) and integrative CALL (an ideal for language learning, in which actors involved in the process are agents of their own learning and the multimodality – not only written language, but gestures, colors, images and movement are taken into account – is part of the
Characterized by frequent change and innovation, the foundation of contemporary language teaching was developed during the early part of the twentieth century, as applied linguists as others pursued to build principles and procedures for the design of teaching methods and materials (RICHARDS; RODGERS, 2014, p. 1). The aim of the present text is to walk through the changes in language teaching through the methodologies, giving emphasis to the ones which are still used and providing a glimpse on what is to come or starting to happen with new approaches and the use of technology on language teaching
The first method cited in literature is the Grammar-Translation method. Its origins …show more content…
CLL has as its aims: raise the achievements of all learners; help teacher build positive relationships among students; give students the experience of healthy social, psychological logical and cognitive development; replace the competitive organizational structure of most classrooms and schools reducing student’s …show more content…
Society has included technologies in education for a while now, as we know that approaches such as the Audiolingual would rely on them. According to Warshauer (1996), the introduction of new information and communication technology (ITC) has originated a field called Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The same author has divided the CALL in three stages, Behaviorist CALL, Communicative CALL (influenced by CLT and mostly likely where most schools are) and integrative CALL (an ideal for language learning, in which actors involved in the process are agents of their own learning and the multimodality – not only written language, but gestures, colors, images and movement are taken into account – is part of the