LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS

50’s / 60’s 60’s / 70’s 70’s / 80’s 90’s / 20th

The technical

scientific

approach

Humanistic

methodologies

The

development

of approaches

Exercises,

language

laboratories,

pattern practice

drills and

atomized

samples of

language

The Silent way,

suggestopedia;

teaching becomes

more instrumental

in nature (the input

hypothesis)

Negotiation of

curricula. CLT

movement.

Democratization

of language.

The

McDonalization

McDonalization is

evident in the

standardisation of

teacher training and

teacher reflection wich

has reduce the doing of

routinized exercises.