Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big
Picture
- ELT materials: the
1950s to the 1980s
- The late 1960s to the late 1970s
- Turbulence
and Rebellion
- The emergence
of "fringe",
humanistic
methodologies
- Self-access work, featuring
self-study materials and
teacherlesslanguage
learning
- Krashen's Input
Hypothesis
- Learners would
produce language when
they were ready
- The 1950s/ 60s and the Cold War
- The USSR launched
the world's first
artificial satellite
called Sputnik
- Change the
history of
language
teaching
- Space Race
- Foreign Language
Teaching came to
take on a particular
priority
- The 1958 National
Defense (Foreign
Language) Act
- Roberto Lado
- English Pattern
Practice
- Era
dominated by
technical
advances
- The 1970s to the mid 1980s
- Embourgeoisement
process
- Prevalence of a
concern of
individualism
- Tom Wolf
- Me Decade
- Learners have their own
unique way of approaching
language study
- Development of tools for
individual's paricular needs
- Why are ELT materials
the way they are?
- New imperatives on
materials design: the
mid 1980s onwards
- Contemporary post-industrial
society
- McDonaldization
- Ritzer (1993, 2012)
- Block (2004)
- Gray and Block (2012)
- McDonalds
- Efficiency & predictability
- Strict policies
- Fixed, deskilled work routines
- Employees
- "CAGED"
- Employees-costumers
- Fixed language scripts
- Employees-costumers
- Standardised Materials
- Course packages
- Warm up
Reading
Grammar work
Written practice
Freer work
- Workplanes, modules, units, blocks,
themes
- Widespread commercial succes
- Neo-liberalism
- The primacy of "the market"
- Increasing divisions between
rick and poor
- Commodification of interactions
- Physical or intangible products and services
- Language certifications
- Exam-type exercies (marketed)
- Stimulating economic and liberalist
policies growth
- Atomisation-monetisation
- Monetary value for traded, accumulated or invested
- Common European Framework: Language products
- Atomised methodologies > Atomised materials