Postmethod Era in Language Education

Zohreh Zare Toofal, Hamed Barjasteh

Abstract


Traditionally we have had many types of method in English language teaching and each method was the best method of its time that had been going when a new approach was invented in 21st century. It is believe that there is no best method otherwise we can have a multi-method procedure in class somehow teachers’ sense of plausibility would be responded to such methods that has been previously used by Prahbu. As Kumaradivelu constructed post-method to introduce other change toward English language teaching after all methods. This literature review of all viewpoints paper is included criticizing points that have been made a flash back to post-method.


Keywords


Post-method era, Postmodernism, Macro strategies, Communication

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