Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching

Language-teaching methods such as audio-lingualism or task-based instruction have been promoted at different times as the ‘best’ way to teach a foreign language. Each such method prescribes a set of learning procedures rooted in a particular theoretical conceptualization of the nature of language a...

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Main Author: Penny Ur
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Language:English
Published: University of Tuzla, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2025-01-01
Series:ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
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Online Access:http://exell.untz.ba/index.php/exell/article/view/35
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description Language-teaching methods such as audio-lingualism or task-based instruction have been promoted at different times as the ‘best’ way to teach a foreign language. Each such method prescribes a set of learning procedures rooted in a particular theoretical conceptualization of the nature of language and language acquisition, based on linguistic and applied linguistics research. It is suggested in this article that the principles guiding teachers in selecting procedures should not be dictated by any particular method recommended by researchers or theoreticians, but should be rather defined as a pedagogy of language teaching, shaped by various general pedagogical – not only language-learning – considerations, as well as by local factors, and determined by the teacher her- or himself.
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Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching
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methodology
pedagogy
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title Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching
title_full Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching
title_fullStr Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching
title_full_unstemmed Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching
title_short Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching
title_sort where do we go from here method and pedagogy in language teaching
topic language-teaching
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pedagogy
constraints
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