LTM and the (very) big picture

LTM and the (very) big picture

1. pedagogic value

2. materials are cultural artefacts

3. 1950s - 1980s

   • the 50s-60s
     • The United States Vs Russia
       • USA take foreign language as priority
         • Technical scientific approach
   • Late 60s/70s
     • stablished ways of doing things
       • Groups
       • Emergency of humanistic methodologies
         • language teaching
           • instrumental in nature
             • discovering myself
   • 70s to the mid 80s
     • individualist mindset
       • tools for individual's particular needs
         • communicative language teaching movement
           • grammar rules and specifications
         • own styles and strategies

4. wider social changes

5. use inside the classroom

   • production outside the classroom