Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching has influenced the way thousands of teachers have taught English. This classic guide to developing the way you teach has been an essential resource to new and experienced teachers worldwide, and is now in its third edition. Each chapter focuses on a different teaching approach, describing it being used in the classroom, analyzing what happened, and helping you think how you could apply it to your own teaching. New features of the third edition include: a new discussion on the political dimensions of language teaching, a new digital technology chapter, and extended coverage of content-based and task-based approaches. On this site you will find additional resources, including author videos in which Diane Larsen-Freeman and Marti Anderson talk about the background to the book and new innovations in language teaching which are discussed in the third edition.
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Marti Anderson. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching 3rd edition
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
To the Teacher Educator
1. Introduction
2. The Grammar-Translation Method
3. The Direct Method
4. The Audio-Lingual Method
5. The Silent Way
6. Desuggestopedia
7. Community Language Learning
8. Total Physical Response
9. Communicative Language Teaching
10. Content-based Instruction
11. Task-based Language Teaching
12. The Political Dimensions of Language Teaching and the Participatory Approach
13. Learning Strategy Training, Cooperative Learning, and Multiple Intelligences
14. Emerging Uses of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning
15. Conclusion
Glossary
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We thank the readers of the first and second editions of this book. Your invaluable feedback and input have helped to shape this third edition.
The approach we have used in this book, as in the previous two editions, is based on our experience in teaching the methods/approaches course at the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at the School for International Training. This book would not have been written in the first place if it had not been for the influence of colleagues and students there. We are indeed grateful for the time we spent in this wonderful community.
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Criticisms of Methods
Despite these potential gains from a study of methods, it is important to acknowledge that a number of writers in our field have criticized the concept of language teaching methods. Some say that methods are prescriptions for classroom behavior, and that teachers are encouraged by textbook publishers and academics to implement them whether or not the methods are appropriate for a particular context (Pennycook 1989). Others have noted that the search for the best method is ill-advised (Prabhu 1990; Bartolome 1994); that teachers do not think about methods when planning their lessons (Long 1991); that methodological labels tell us little about what really goes on in classrooms (Katz 1996); and that teachers experience a certain fatigue concerning the constant coming and going of fashions in methods (Rajagopalan 2007). Hinkel (2006) also notes that the need for situationally relevant language pedagogy has brought about the decline of methods.
