The document discusses the evolution of language teaching methodology over time. It describes methodology as shifting like sand, with new paradigms emerging every 25 years and borrowing from previous approaches. The audiolingual method was significant as it broke from grammar translation and incorporated elements of direct instruction. Recent trends focus on communicative competence, collaborative learning, and enabling genuine student communication rather than just teaching language rules. The document concludes that methodology continues to change and modern approaches often combine multiple methods.

1. Language Teaching Methodology Alejandro Garcia Daniela Montes

2. What do we mean? The best way to teach a second language Teaching trends Theory and practice

3. “ Shifting sands” Albert Marckwardt saw these changes as a cyclical pattern in which a new paradigm of LTM emerged every quarter of a century Each one taking positive elements of the other ALM is the most significant Borrowing elements from: Direct method Breaking away completely from Grammar-Translation Method

4. “ Shifting sands” Psychologists also found an increase in the interest of interpersonal relationships within the value of group work The same way happened with linguists who looked for the nature of communication and communicative competence

5. New trends Communicative competence Collaborative learning Looking to break away from “teaching of rules, patterns, definitions and other knowledge ‘about’ language” Making students communicate genuinely and spontaneously

6. Conclusions Language Teaching Methodologies always change The new trends invite us to give the student more space to communicate freely Nowadays many opt for an eclectic approach to teaching

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8. 1. What do we mean by Language Teaching Methodology? The best way to teach a second language Teaching trends Theory and practice

9. 2. What are the elements that conform LTM?

10. 3. How is LTM compared to? Who compared it? As shifting sands Albert Marckwardt

11. 4. Which method made a significant difference in these “shifting sands”? ALM

12. 5. What are the new trends in teaching? Communicative competence Collaborative learning Looking to break away from “teaching of rules, patterns, definitions and other knowledge ‘about’ language” Making students communicate genuinely and spontaneously

13. References Principles of Language Learning and Teaching , Brown D., Fourth edition, Longman. http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/rodgers.html