<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

Oranim Academic College of Education, Tivon, Israel

ExELL

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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...

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

Published Online: Apr 22, 2016

Page range: 3 - 11

Received: Aug 23, 2014

Accepted: Sep 22, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0001

Keywords
language-teaching, method, methodology, pedagogy, constraints, teacher

© 2014 Penny Ur, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Published Online: Apr 22, 2016

Page range: 3 - 11

Received: Aug 23, 2014

Accepted: Sep 22, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0001

Keywordslanguage-teaching, method, methodology, pedagogy, constraints, teacher

© 2014 Penny Ur, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
language-teaching, method, methodology, pedagogy, constraints, teacher