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

• Authors: Penny Ur
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

language-teaching; method; methodology; pedagogy; constraints; teacher

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: ExELL
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-11

Dates

published

2014-10-01

received

2014-08-23

accepted

2014-09-22

online

2016-04-22

Contributors

author

Penny Ur

• Oranim Academic College of Education, Tivon, Israel

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/exell-2016-0001