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English Teaching in the Post-Method Era by Tamara Etchegoyen is a document available to read on EtoBox.

1. The document discusses the history of language teaching methods from the late 19th century to the mid-1980s, when the field moved away from searching for a single ideal method. 2. It describes how methods became too prescriptive and indistinguishable at later stages, and could not be empirically proven as "best". Methods also carried political agendas. 3. The field now takes a principled approach informed by second language acquisition research rather than following any single method. Teachers design e

Author

Tamara Etchegoyen

Language

EN