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by DANIEL SORIANO 9 years ago

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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

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
theory: Krashen’s Input Hypothesis.
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