Week 6 Critical Language Teaching

"Rather than follow the methods prescribed by their teacher education, TESOL practitioners may benefit by developing their own methodology for their students based on their own reflective action research (Lin, 1999 citing Holiday, 1994).

In Lin (1999)'s article, students in four different classes, where different types of teaching are employed by teachers, are led to a success or failure in learning English. It is important to keep in mind that teachers (their teaching styles and their attitudes toward student) play an important role to lead students a success in learning.

In a reality, different cultures have different education background such as teacher-student relationship, teaching style (For example, teacher-dominant classroom), and materials teachers use. Therefore, for example, CLT, which can be said that the most popular and supported methodology nowadays, it can not fit in an Asian country classroom. There is no one best method to fit a classroom situtation. Therefore, we need to think critically.

Lin, A.M.Y (1999). Doing-English-lessons in the reproduction or transformation of social worlds?. TESOL Quarterly, 33(3), 393-412.