In this episode I discuss 3 major approaches to language teaching of the past 50+ years. It’s helpful to understand where it all started and how we arrived at the communicative teaching practices that we employ in our classroom.
Sometimes we need to look to the past to fully understand how to got to where we are now.
Find out about:
- Behaviorism; Pavlov, Skinner
- Innatism; Chomsky
- Social Interactionism; Vygotsky, Hymes
What has been refuted, supported or sustained in our modern approaches?
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