post method pedagogy and ELT teachers

post method pedagogy and ELT teachers

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Journal of Academic and Applied Studies
Vol. 2(2) February 2012, pp. 22- 29
Available online @ www.academians.org
ISSN1925-931X

Postmethod Pedagogy and ELT Teachers
Mohammad Khatib1, Jalil Fat‟hi2
1

Department of English Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, Iran
Department of English Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, Iran

2

Abstract
After experienced dissatisfaction with the language teaching methods and approaches in the early and midtwentieth century, the notion of postmethod pedagogy was deemed a viable solution to the problems that
methods created for both language teachers and learners. This paper briefly addresses the controversial
issue of postmethod pedagogy by first introducing it and then elaborating some backbreaking problems that
a postmethod pedagogy creates for a postmethod teacher in practice.

Keywords: Postmethod, Method, Approach, ELT Teachers
I.

Introduction

After the successive rise and fall of a couple of methods and approaches in the early and mid
twentieth century, The ELT researchers and practitioners came to realize that no single method
or approach of language teaching would be the optimal framework to draw upon to bring about
success in teaching a foreign language especially as it was seen that certain learners seemed to be
successful regardless of methods or techniques of teaching (Brown, 2000). Then, in this tight
situation, post-method pedagogy, as proposed by Kumaravadivelu (1994) emerged as a response
to a call for the most optimal way of teaching English that will free itself from the method-based
stranglehold.
II.

The Postmethod Pedagogy

This newer understanding in foreign language teaching methodology has been described as the
postmethod condition because of its underlying beliefs and assumptions concerning foreign
language teaching practices. As Kumaravadivelu (2006) describes it:
The postmethod condition is a sustainable...

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