PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES

Language teachers have always been concerned about the inadequacy of conventional methods of language teaching in education systems. As a result, the language teaching pendulum is swinging from methods to post-method pedagogy, although it still remains in motion. The dual focus on both socio-cultural theories to second language acquisition (SLA) and improvements in technologies wins the attention of practitioners, syllabus designers, and students as the major stakeholders in applied linguistics. This has resulted in greater emphasis on the important role of technology in language teaching in the form of CALL, distance education, and a variety of technology-based language teaching. Many have tried to find a more innovative direction in this respect (Rodgers, 2000). This article, along with reviewing different predictions made in this direction, takes a more edu-sociocultural-technological perspective to address the potentially important issues in language teaching in future.