Teaching does not start between walls. Like any other field, it is not shocking that there is science and many people working and thinking how to improve
education before the procedure inside the classroom:
The importance of studying old and new methods is an essential
part of teacher training because it allows us to experiment and understand how students
actually learn in order to find the optimum way to teach.
Without the labour of theorists, nowadays we would
still think that we learn by repetition and all language lessons would be based
in listening to the teacher and repeating his sentences. Innovation has lead us
towards different approaches, from the Grammar Translation Method, going through
the Direct Method, the Audio-Lingual Method, the Cognitive Approach, and
leading us to the Communicative Approach, where finally students have more
autonomy, the possibility to interact with the teacher and with themselves, and
their mistakes are taken into account to progress.
But in fact, maybe there is no perfect method and teachers
have to apply one or another, or even fractions of them, depending on the
subject, the issue or the students. After that, is the teacher who has to decide
how to apply the approaches and, at
the end, a blend of all of them might be the best way.
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