English Language Teaching in the "post - Method" era: Toward Better Diagnosis, Treatment, and Assessment

Authors

H. Douglas Brown

Publication Date

1997-12-01

Abstract

In the century of time spanning the mid 1880s to the mid 1980s, the language teaching profession was involved in what many pedagogical experts would call a search. That search was for a single, ideal method, generalizable across widely varying audiences, that would successfully teach students a foreign language in the classroom. Historical accounts of the profession tend therefore to describe a succession of methods each of which are more or less discarded in due course of time as a new method takes its place. I will comment on "the changing winds and shifting sands" (Marckwardt 1972:5) of that history momentarily; but first, we should try to understand what we mean by method.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.27.1.1

First Page

1

Last Page

11

Recommended Citation

Brown, H. Douglas (1997) "English Language Teaching in the "post - Method" era: Toward Better Diagnosis, Treatment, and Assessment," PASAA: Vol. 27: Iss. 1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.27.1.1
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol27/iss1/1