Towards an Aesthetics of ELT

One of the major intentions for this paper is to counter the currently prevailing, so-called ‘scientific’, approach to language learning, with its emphasize on objectives, detailed curricular prescription, predictable outcomes, testing and assessment, bureaucratic control , and the rest. I wish to c...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Advances in language and literary studies 2010-01, Vol.1 (1), p.4-28
1. Verfasser:	Maley, Alan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aesthetics English as a second language instruction
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Zusammenfassung:	One of the major intentions for this paper is to counter the currently prevailing, so-called ‘scientific’, approach to language learning, with its emphasize on objectives, detailed curricular prescription, predictable outcomes, testing and assessment, bureaucratic control , and the rest. I wish to contrast such ‘scientific’ approaches unfavorably with intuitive/aesthetic approaches.
ISSN:	2203-4714 2203-4714
DOI:	10.7575/aiac.alls.v.1n.1p.4