I really like that Brown uses the term pedagogy instead of the term methods. I like how the book explained it also, where it says methods "implies a static set of procedures, whereas the latter (pedagogy) suggests the dynamicc interplay between teachers, learners and instructional materials during he process of teaching and learning." To me that just made perfect sense because it is important to keep all of these things in mind when you are teaching students.
There was a lot of material to digest in this chapter. A lot of new terms that are all so important for my future in teaching. I found the first chapter to be interesting because it kind of took you through the history of how teachers taught a foreign language in the past. I do not know why they would ever think that there was one way to teach everything, or specific method that will be effective enough for the students to learn. Now I know from many classes that I've taken that there is a variety of practices you can use to teach and some work better for different material.
One thing that I really liked from the first chapter the quote at the bottom of page 11 that says "the cycle goes on". The article is explaining that in being a teacher you must constantly be taking risks in teaching in the classroom, then assessing how they work, and understand their effectiveness. If something does not work then the teacher is then able to reshape what they did and modify it for next time until they get it right and it becomes effective.
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