Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Postmethod

ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional

by B. Kumaravadivelu

It combines a critical evaluation of the traditional methods that form the organizing principles for second and foreign language teacher education, an informed discussion of their strengths and limitations, and a rationale for and description of the emer

Genres: Teaching

277 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Khansa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was lucky to study Kumaravadivelu books and to tackle them critically with my Prof. El-Okda. Kumar's ideas were interesting, but not new since they were introduced by other researchers. His view that every method has a political ideology is what characterizes his thought. He was influenced in this by Pennycook, who overstated the ideology effect on a teaching method.
Kumar discussed in his first book the principles followed in the postmethod, then he published his second book in which he revealed the framework of the postmethod.
I recommend them to language teachers.

[Eko Adhi]

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