English Language Teaching in the 19908: How Will Teachers Fit in?

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Writer(s): 
Stephen Gaies

This article proposes that the directions that English language
teaching will take in the 1990s can be discerned from trends
that are now firmly in place. The growth of English language
teaching as an international enterprise and the efforts that
have been made to professionalize our work offer important
lessons for the next decade. Progress in language teaching
results from the search for what is universal about classroom
language teaching and learning, and from an appreciation of the
distinctive features of particular teaching and learning settings.
Like cultural anthropologists, we need to adopt an
ethnographic view of classroom teaching and learning. Beyond
that, we must encourage the trend in our field to redefine the
nature of authority and expertise and to encourage those who
work in a particular setting to determine what they wish to
value in English language teaching methodology, materials,
and goals.

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