Method & Post-method
Method and Post-method | Mike McDonald | October 2nd, 2003
Those of you who read Kumaravadivelu's articles in the FND and MET folders of articles might be interested to read a different perspective on the issues, which appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of TESOL Quarterly. In a forum article entitled "Method and Postmethod: Are They Really So Incompatible?", David Bell argues that the concept of method remains very relevant in ELT, and that post methodology, "rather than going beyond method, may be understood as a synthesis of various methods under the umbrella of CLT". Another way of understanding the situation, he says, is to see post method "in a potentially dialectical relationship with method . . . method imposes practices top-down; post method constructs practices bottom-up. Taken together, they may mediate the negative features of each viewpoint taken in isolation".
It's quite an interesting read, and the author discusses both of the Kumaravadivelu articles from the FND and MET modules.
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