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Bright Ideas and Dead Ends - ELT
Methodology Past, Present and Future?

Rob Dean
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Agenda
Through the ages beliefs, methodology and
approaches Where are we now? What of the future,
and what does it mean for us?
about 100 years ago
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In the beginning
about 100 years ago
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In the beginning
Grammar Translation
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Did you ever have to do this at school? a)
Yes b) No c) Cant remember d) Sometimes
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Did you ever have to do this at school? a)
Yes b) No c) Cant remember d) Sometimes
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Would your pre-int students understand the
basic message of this grammar explanation? a)
No b) No c) No d) No
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Would your pre-int students understand the
basic message of this grammar explanation? a)
No b) No c) No d) No
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Would your pre-int students understand the
basic message of this grammar explanation? a)
b) No c) No d)
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Who do you feel embarrassed for the most? a)
The viewer b) The teacher c) The
Student d) Everybody
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Would do you feel embarrassed for the most? a)
The viewer b) The teacher c) The
Student d) Everybody
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The 1940s
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Behaviourism The Direct Method Audiolingualism
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Mechanical Drills
This is a cat Mouse? Dog? Horse? That?
This is a cat This is a mouse This is a dog This
is a horse This is a that
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• Hans ist nass weil er unter einem Wasserfall
  steht
• Hans is wet because hes standing under a
  waterfall
• Ein Getränkautomat ist eine Maschine die Getränke
  liefert wenn mann eine Münze einwirft
• An automatic drinks machine is a machine that
  delivers a drink when you put a coin in the slot
• Helga steht an der Bushaltestelle an der
  gegenüberliegenden Seite der Strasse
• Helga is standing at the bus stop on the opposite
  side of the street

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What would you describe as the aims of this
lesson? a) To not let the students get a word
in edgeways b) To maximise teacher talk
c) To revise a completely
random selection of language points

d) All of these
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What would you describe as the aims of this
lesson? a) To not let the students get a word
in edgeways b) To maximise teacher talk
c) To revise a completely
random selection of language points

d) All of these
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The 1960s
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Cognitive Code
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Language for REAL Communication
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Everday Communication?
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The 1970s
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Communicative Language Teaching (Phase
1) Suggestopaedia The Silent Way Community
Language Learning
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With which humanistic approach do you
associate Gategno and his Cuisenaire rods? a)
CLL b) The Silent Way c) Suggestopaedia d)
None of these
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With which humanistic approach do you
associate Lozanov, comfy armchairs and Bach? a)
CLL b) The Silent Way c) Suggestopaedia d)
Wikipedia
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With which humanistic approach do you
associate Curran, and the teacher providing
translations into English of everything they
hear? a) CLL b) The Silent Way c) The Loud
Way d) Suggestopaedia
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Communicative Language Teaching (Phase
1) Suggestopaedia The Silent Way Community
Language Learning
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The 1980s
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With which approach do you associate Krashen
and Tyrell? a) Natural b) Organic c)
Gluten-Free d) Unleaded
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Communicative Language Teaching (Phase 2) The
Natural Approach
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Comprehensible Input 1
or
Comprehensible Input 10?? How much would a
beginner understand?
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Communicative Language Teaching (Phase 2) Task
Based Learning
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Communicative Language Teaching (Phase 2) Task
Based Learning
What is a task?
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What is a task?
In TBL, tasks are always activities where the
target language is used by the learner for a
communicative purpose (goal) in order to achieve
an outcome in which the emphasis is on exchanging
meanings not producing specific language forms.
(Willis 199623).
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Or put more simply
Using language to get things done
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Where are we now? Principled Eclecticism
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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• Drilling
• Direct / Audiolingual

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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• Dictation
• Grammar Translation

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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• Background music in class
• Suggestopaedia

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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• Authentic texts at low levels
• Natural

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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• On the spot error correction
• Direct / Audiolingual

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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• Delayed Error Correction
• Communicative

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Bright ideas where did they all come from?

• Information Gap
• Communicative

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What of the future?
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The impact of technology
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1994

• 1994

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2011 - and the Future?
Distance learning Blended learning Interactive
whiteboards CD ROMs MP3 audio Podcasting
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But lets not be too hasty...
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer
probably should be. Arthur C Clarke talking to
Sugata Mitra TED.com
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Language Teaching and Language Learning
Whats it all about? a) Communication
b) Fun

c) Fulfilling the curriculum
d) Academic
Success
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