English language teaching - the need for a radically different approach - Part 4 from or in english grammar Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 5 min 2 sec
✓ Published: 05-Sep-2012

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Language teaching in essence has not changed in the last 50 or more years. There have been a variety of different insights, resulting in hefty swings of the pendulum from grammar to no grammar and back again, but the paradigm of deconstructed input persists. There is an enormous gulf between the way that we are designed as human beings to learn to communicate through language, and the way in which it is formally taught. Rita Baker introduces the concept behind the Global Approach to language lea