Episode Details

In this episode I discuss 3 major approaches to language teaching of the past 50+ years.  It's helpful to understand where it all started and how we arrived at the communicative teaching practices that we employ in our classroom.  [sign up for Talking Points]

Sometimes we need to look to the past to fully understand how to got to where we are now.

Find out  about:

• Behaviorism; Pavlov, Skinner
• Innatism; Chomsky
• Social Interactionism; Vygotsky, Hymes

What has been refuted, supported or sustained in our modern approaches? 

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