4/21/2010
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The effectiveness of conceptualizing language in term that language users could grasp up to the extensive viability of language operation is not totally left up to language educators. It was almost a century that most educational stakeholders in both Western and Eastern world appreciated conservative classroom paradigms, such as Audiolingualism, Grammar-translation, and many Direct approaches. ‘Conservative’ here is another term that I must approach, that I believe to have set cultural, social and relational mindset in the field of educational history in both developed and developing countries.
Humankind no different from other types of planetary creatures is suggested, persuaded, colonized, governed, controlled, and commanded to undergo compromises, submissions and changes. I believe that theoretical and empirical discoveries on descriptive, correlational and experimental researches of learning and teaching were totally a natural fitness to their social-ecology. These untwistable facts basically evidence that in the early narrow world learners and educators were slaves of their social bounds, facilitative shortages and limitation in creative ideals. On the contrary, the modern world seeks to uplifts the value of humanity as it opens the front door to creativity, opportunity and round-table discussions on mystical aspects to quests of knowledge. The democratic world believes that everyone is creative, inventive and artistic in many ways. At this point, we as educators no longer oblige to spoonfeed learners in their learning process. That so-to-say, we take the roles as triggerers instead of shooters; Monitors instead of classroom rulers; motivators instead of dictators; Classroom supervisors rather than full-time service educators; outliners instead of narrators. Through the lenses of CLT techniques, the educational responsibility does not become a heavy yoke upon the educators’ shoulders, yet it helps balance social interaction and objectively helps enhance learners’ capacity to reach deep structure level of understanding language.
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