THE POST METHODS ERA FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Methods as yhe teaching profession responds to the findings of the new research and to developments in educational theory and parctice.
There are some of the factors that have influenced language teaching trends in the past and that can be expected to continue to do in the future:

*Government policy directives: governments have driven educational changes on a fairly regular basis for decades and are likely to continue to do in the future.

*Responses to technology: technology innovations is likely to capture the imagination of the teaching profession in the future .

*Influences from academic disciplines: linguistics, psycholinguistics, and psycology have an impact on the theories of language and language learning and support particular approaches to language teaching.

*Research influences: second language teaching and learning is increasingly a field for intensive research and theorizing.

*Learned-based innovations: learner strategies, multiple intelligences.


Despite changes in the status of approches and methods, we can therefore expect the field of second teaching in the twenty century to be no less a ferment of theories, ideas, and practices than it has been in the past.