Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A La Carte Approach to Approaches

Hi all,

A big thank you to everyone for your support over the past two years. Realizing that this blog keeps growing and that the options for making it navigable with blogger are diminishing week by week, I've moved over to WordPress.  I hope this doesn't cause any unnecessary inconvenience.

The original article you are looking for is below this short message. After reading, if you have a moment to check out the new (and hardly changed) "The Other Things Matter", please drop in.  Would love to hear from you.





I haven't been blogging as much as I would like lately.  Most of it was due to a heavy classload at work and a few papers I had to finish up for my dip TESOL.  Finally got the last paper written and sent off to my advisor.  So regular blogging will start again from tonight (I hope).  But until then, I thought I would link to my last paper.  It's a 7-pager on different approaches to language teaching.  I was pretty surprised during the act of writing this one how much ‘historical’ approaches to language teaching still influence what I do in my classroom. 

Anyway, here it is:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100992463/An-a-La-Carte-Approach-to-Language-Teaching-Approaches