Tuesday, August 30

I found this week's readings to both be equally interesting in terms of contrasting the two of them together.  Both pieces focused on the use of theory in the language learning classroom, but each had vastly different views.  I thought that the key issue at both of these articles was the views on the appropriateness of theory in language learning.  The first article opposed use of theory, while the second had a more favorable view on theory use in the classroom of language learners.  This lead me to wonder how much should teachers rely on theory and how much should they rely on their students own abilities? This seems to be something worth addressing in order to become a more effective ELL educator.