Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big Picture
The late 1960s to the late 1970s
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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.
The 1970s to the mid 1980s
The 1950s/60s and the Cold War
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New imperatives on materials design: the mid 1980s onwards
Globalization
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Neoliberalism; Mcdonalization
standarization