Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big Picture
The evolution of language teaching materials reflects broader socio-economic and political contexts. During the 1950s and 60s, the Cold War significantly influenced educational priorities.
Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big Picture
New imperatives on materials design: the mid 1980s onwards
Neoliberalism; Mcdonalization
standarization
Globalization
The 1950s/60s and the Cold War
The 1970s to the mid 1980s
The late 1960s to the late 1970s
humanistic methodologies, rarely implemented, were much talked about and cited. Stevick’s (1976) “Memory, Meaning and Method,” which featured methodologies such as Gattegno’s Silent Way (Gattegno, 1972) and Lozanov’s Suggestopaedia (Lozanov, 1978). Also well-known from this time is Moskowitz’s