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1. The document discusses the post-method era in language teaching, which refers to teaching a language to a particular group of learners with specific goals based on the social and institutional context. 2. It notes that no language teaching method is perfect, and methods must be flexible based on the teacher and learners. The role of the teacher is marginalized in methods where they must submit to the prescribed approach. 3. Several common language teaching methods are described such as audiolingualism, Counseling-Learning, and Total Physical Response. The document advocates considering the local context when applying methods rather than viewing them as universal solutions.

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The Post Method Era-2

1. The document discusses the post-method era in language teaching, which refers to teaching a language to a particular group of learners with specific goals based on the social and institutional context. 2. It notes that no language teaching method is perfect, and methods must be flexible based on the teacher and learners. The role of the teacher is marginalized in methods where they must submit to the prescribed approach. 3. Several common language teaching methods are described such as audiolingualism, Counseling-Learning, and Total Physical Response. The document advocates considering the local context when applying methods rather than viewing them as universal solutions.

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TEFL

Post methods era


in Language
Teaching
GROUP 6
Postmethod definition
The new era based on Kumaradievlu's (2006) explanation, is the postmethod
era which means a particular group of teachers teaching a particular group of learners following
a particular set of goals within a particular institutional context embedded in a particular socio-
cultural milieu.
But please note that teaching a foreign language does not have the most perfect method,
all methods are very flexible depending on the teacher and learner. In method, teachers have
to accept the theory underlying the method and apply it in classroom. The role of the teacher is
marginalized, he must submit himself to the method. learners are passive recipients of the
method and must submit themselves .In contrast, in learner-centeredness teaching must be
flexible and adoptive to learners needs &interest .
Counseling- Learning
01
Counseling- Learning
Methods in 02
English
Language 03 Situational Language
Teaching
Teaching 04 The Silent Way
Audiolingualism
Suggestopedia
05
06 Total Physical Response
The top down critism
The teacher have to accept the claims or theory
underlying the method and appy them to their own
practice

Good Teachin regarded as .

1 Correct use of method

2 its prescribed principles and techniques

.
The role of teacher is marginalized
• His role or her role is to understand the method and apply its
principles correctly.

Learners are sometimes viewed as the passive


recipients of the method

• They must submit themselves to its regime of exercises and


activities.  
Role of contextual factor

Both approach and methods are often promoted as all-purpose


solutions to teaching problems
In trying to apply approaches or
methods, teachers sometimes ignore what is the
starting point in language program
design, namely, a careful consideration of the
context.
 
CLT and cultural imperialism nearly is same thing
according to their educational traditions.
In this respect, CLT is used in Britain and United
States, other speaking countries. And so, this
situation is related to target culture and the
assumptions of CLT.

Similarly, Counseling-learning and cooperative


learning and their assumption about the roles of
teachers and learners are not necessarily
culturally universal.
The need from curriculum development
processor.
These tradition ally involve:
The careful examination, drawing on all available sources of
knowledge and informed judgement, of the teaching objectives.
The development and trial use in schools of those methods and
materials which are judged most likely to achieve the objectives
which teachers agreed upon.
The assessment of the extend to which the development
work has in fact achieved its objectives .
The final element is therefore the feedback of all the
experience gained, to provide a starting point for further
study.

Use this circle


 
LACK OF RESEARCH
BASIS
based on the assumption that the process of second
language Approaches and methods are often
learning are fully understood.
 
SIMILARITY OF
CLASSROOM
PRACTICES
Brown (1997:3) makes similar point:
Generally, methods are quite
distinctive at the early, beginning
stages of a language course, and rather
indistinguishable from each other at a later
stage.
Beyond approaches and methods

•to learn how to use different approaches and methods and


understand when they might be useful
•to understand some of the issues and controversies that
characterize the history of language teaching

•to participate in language learning experiences based on different


approaches and methods as a basis for reflection and comparison
•to be aware of the rich set of activity resources available to the
imaginative teacher

•to appreciate how theory and practice can be linked


from a variety of different perspectives
Looking Forward
Responses to technology: The potential of the internet, the World Wide
Web, and other computer interfaces and technological innovations is likely
o capture the imagination of the teaching profession in the future as it has
in the past and will influence both the content and the fom of instructional
delivery in the language teaching. Learner-based innovations: Learner-
based focuses recur in laguage teaching and other fields in approximately
10-year cycles, as we have seen with individualized instruction, the
earner centred curiculum, leamer training, leamer strategies, and Multiple
Intelligences. We can anticipate continuation of this trend
THANK YOU, please ask questions if you don't
understand what we are explaining

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