Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LTM and the very big picture
- Introduction
- The materials are always related to the social
phenomena such as; Context, History,
Perspectives, Atittudes, Values, Concepts and
Socio-Political Relations.
- 1950's to 1960's and the Cold War
- Robert Lado develop an efficient methodology to teach English through
drills and language labs.
- Late 1960's to late 1970's
- Alternative and humanistic ways to learn such as;
Suggestopedia, the Silent way.
- Materials: Self-study, Self-access work, teacherless learning.
- 1970's to the mid 1980's
- Students had unique ways of approaching language, they also had control
about their own linguistic needs and wants.
- The mid 1980's onwards
- Centralised and standarised view of what language teaching should be about.
- McDonaldization
- Materials were standarised, predictable and homogenized.
- Neo-liberalism
- Marketing in education is the rule.
- Conclusion
- Language teaching would be: Experimentatio, Innovation and Re-thinking in
materials.