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Description of  Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching (Routledge Key Guides to Applied Linguistics)

0367703300 pdf 0367703300 pdf Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging guide to the much-debated notions of method, methods, and postmethod in language teaching. Divided into three sections - Contexts, Concepts, and Debates the book sets out traditional understandings of method(s), examines alternative accounts and critiques that inform, and at times go beyond, postmethod thinking within language teaching, and finally relates these issues to key practical debates and dilemmas that teachers navigate in the classrooms. Highlighting the importance of teachers understandings of their own professional contexts, the volume uses the notion of method as a lens through which teachers and other language teaching professionals can clarify their understandings of language teaching, both in terms of pedagogic practices and classroom possibilities, and with regard to the development of this diverse field more generally. Read more