Talking about Methodology... (check it, please)



Old Method



Well, as you know, Education is the most interesting theme in our time around the whole world. It gives us the tools to develop our abilities and  to fix our goals with different competences along our life.

Now, like teachers, we have the mission to educate people trying to use the best way to, and Methodology has a fundamental role in this science. Methodology, according to Bob Adamson in the chapter of Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology from the book The Handbook of Applied Linguistics by Davis, A. Elder, C. denotes the study of the system or range of methods that are used in teaching, while a method is a single set of practices and procedures, derived from theory or theorization practise, that impinges upon the design of a curriculum plan, resources, and teaching and learning activities.  

Dramatic Perfomance

Learning with a Project in the english Class

Now, if Methodology is the study of the methods which have been used in teaching, like a student of English Pedagogy, the question is which is the best method that we should apply in our classes?  In my personal opinion there's no an unique method, all depend on the context where you have to apply it.  Meanwhile the old methods were based on teachers as experts (Grammar Translation, Audio-lingual, The Direct Method and The Silent Way), the new ones (Communicative Language Teaching, which real communication promotes learning, where language is a mean of expression for students; Task Based, which is based on the idea that students are learning more effectively because they're concentrating their effort on the task itself instead on the language and they also use different skills in the language; and  Genre Pedagogy, which is based on texts, this approach assists pupils to organize their writing and understand the nature of a text) are based on learners like the main actors of the process, where meaning and social interaction have a main role.  English Language has to be considered as an holistic competence, where reality is part of the scene, where teachers act as a mere guide, and pupils can build their own knowledge in a social way.  The purpose is to acquire English language through a natural way, where reality takes place.